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Pringle examined the situation in all its aspects. 'Can't you get along? he enquired at length. 'Not an inch. 'Pity. I wish we could swop places. 'So do I for some things. To start with, I shouldn't mind having made that century of yours against Charchester. Pringle beamed. The least hint that his fellow-man was taking him at his own valuation always made him happy. 'Thanks, he said.
'Na, yer can't do thet now; it's bigamy, an' the cop tikes yer, an' yer gits twelve months' 'ard for it. 'But swop me bob, Liza, I can't go on like this. Yer knows the missus well, there ain't no bloomin' doubt abaht it, she knows as you an' me are carryin' on, an' she mikes no bones abaht lettin' me see it. 'She don't do thet?
Exchanging the two was long held the soundest of policy. The English also seemed willing enough to "swop" an effete and dilapidated settlement, surrounded by more powerful rivals a hot-bed of dysentery and yellow fever, a blot upon the fair face of earth, even African earth for a new and fresh country, with a comparatively good climate, in which the thermometer ranges between 65deg.
We've been together now for forty years, And it don't seem a day too much, There ain't a lady livin' in the land As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch. you would never listen to Albert Chevalier again. That, of course, was the just and admirable exaggeration of youth and friendship.
"Wall, ma'm, no harm did," he said handing her the letters; and then to Jasper he said: "Brother Fetterson come a ridin' by my house late yistidy an' wanted to swop hosses with me. Had a five year old that I raised myse'f, a little under size but as tough as dried beef; so I swopped for a mighty likely nag." "Have you looked at yo' swop to-day?" "Yes, seed him a standin' out in the lot."
"An' I can't git away from the tanyard at all ef ye won't holp me, 'kase old Jube 'lowed he wouldn't let me swop with a smaller boy ter work hyar; an' all them my size, an' bigger, air made ter work with thar dads, 'ceptin' you- uns." Nate heard, but he hardly looked as if he did, so busily absorbed was he in fitting this fragment of fact into his mental mosaic.
I took the first opportunity of impressing upon all present secrecy respecting the treasure, for I could not tell in what light our possession of it might be looked upon; and then I hurried down to the canoes to Tom with refreshments, of which he eagerly partook, as he said at intervals: "I believe I should have been starved out, Mas'r Harry, if there hadn't been some of the eatables stuffed in my canoe by mistake; for I'd got nothing much to swop with the Indians when I did happen to see any ashore."
Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabbit settin' cross-legged on a chinkapin log koamin' de pitch outen his har wid a chip. Den Brer Fox know dat he bin swop off mighty bad.
At last somebody advised him to try a fishing cruise down East; and so he persuaded me to take him aboard my schooner. I knew he'd be right in the way, and poor company at the best, for all his Greek and Latin; for, as a general thing, I've noticed that your college chaps swop away their common sense for their larning, and make a mighty poor bargain of it.
Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again. Everybody, with the usual rustic freedom, had remarks to make upon the situation. "Wal, Bettie, made a swop, hev yeh?" said Councill. "Hello, Milt; thought you had a girl down town."
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