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The girl eyed the money and the man with half-bashful curiosity. "I reckon Dad might give ye suthing if he had a mind ter, though ez a rule he's down on tramps ever since they run off his chickens. Ye might try." "But I want you to try. You can bring it to me here."
Told 'em to send over soon's ever it come," said the farmer calmly. "Shouldn't wonder ef suthing was afire some'r's," conjectured the hired man, surveying the horizon for a cloud of smoke. Instead of advancing to meet the messenger, both stood like statues in blue overalls and red flannel shirts, till the boy arrived and told his tale. "Sho, that's bad," said the farmer, anxiously.
"Bah!" said he at last, with intense contempt; "I don't want that stuff. D'ye think I'm starving? A'nt you got suthing nice say, some strawberry shortcake and cream?" The woman stared with astonishment, as well she might. But the man with the headache heard Mr Tramp's remarks.
Tha'll say it ill becooms mea as war man and boy in Sir Jarge's sarvice for fifty year, to say owt agen him, but I'm here to do it, or they couldn't foolfil their business. Tha wast to ax me questions about Sir Jarge and the Grange, and I wor to answer soa as to make tha think thar was suthing wrong wi' un.
"Useter pass our house on the road," returned the girl, dropping into her monotonous recital, "and useter signal." "Ah, signal?" repeated the Colonel approvingly. "Yes! He'd say 'Keerow, and I'd say 'Keeree. Suthing like a bird, you know." Indeed, as she lifted her voice in imitation of the call, the Colonel thought it certainly very sweet and birdlike. At least as SHE gave it.
He drank the milk awkwardly. But by the laws of courtesy, even among the most savage tribes, she felt he was, at that moment at least, harmless. A timid smile fluttered around her mouth as she said: "When ye hung up them things I thought ye might be havin' suthing to swap or sell. That is," with tactful politeness, "mother was wantin' a new skillet, and it would have been handy if you'd had one.
"I dunno," replied Stott, "somethin' about learnin' and talkin'. I didn't get the rights of it, but the missus near fainted she thinks 'e's Gawd A'mighty or suthing." "But why don't you make him speak?" I asked deliberately. "Make 'im!" said Stott, with a curl of his lip, "make 'im! You try it on!" I knew I was acting a part, but I wanted to provoke more information. "Well! Why not?" I said.
There was clearly no deceit here! Renshaw's attentive eyes saw the smile, and his brow darkened. "I like to hear yer say that, Mr. Renshaw," said Nott, "and it's no more than Rosey deserves, ez it's suthing onnat'ral and spell-like that's come over her through Ferrers. It ain't my Rosey.
Look steady as ye can, Neb. Yer weather eye was always clarer than mine. What d'ye see now?" "Nothing," came the answer again; and then the dull tone quickened: "Aye I do, I do! Thar's suthing sticking out of the waves like a broken mast." "The Old Light," said Captain Jeb, hoarsely, "all that's left of it. Last Island has gone under, as you said it would, Neb, clean swallowed up.
It's suthing betwixt jim-jams and doddering idjiocy. Here I'd hev been willin' to swear that Mrs. Baxter here told me she had sold this yer ranch nearly two years ago to Don José, and now you" "Stop!" said Mrs. Tucker, in a voice that chilled them. She was standing upright and rigid, as if stricken to stone.
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