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"If you chaps have finished swopping snake yarns," said Jim, turning in his saddle, "there's Anglers' Bend." They had been riding steadily across the plain, until they had again come near the scrub-line which marked the course of the creek.
Raveloe was not a place where moral censure was severe, but it was thought a weakness in the Squire that he had kept all his sons at home in idleness; and though some licence was to be allowed to young men whose fathers could afford it, people shook their heads at the courses of the second son, Dunstan, commonly called Dunsey Cass, whose taste for swopping and betting might turn out to be a sowing of something worse than wild oats.
Thar's squ'lls, an' 'possum, an' turkeys too; an' lots o' fish in the crik if one gets tired o' the bar an' deer-meat, which I shed niver do." "But how about clothing, and other necessaries that are not found in the woods?" "As for our clothin' it ain't hard to find. We can get that in Swampville by swopping skins for it, or now an' then some deer-meat.
In America, nature herself has put the colonists on many schemes for the improvement of dinner, and terrapin soup is gratefully associated with memoirs of Virginia in the minds of those who like terrapin soup. The canvas-backed duck has been praised as highly as the "swopping, swopping mallard" of a comfortable college in Oxford.
"I shouldn't like to think of Jack's kid in the House; still he'll be a heap of trouble worse nor a dozen pups, and no chance of winning a prize with him nohow, or of selling him, or swopping him if his points don't turn out right. Still, lass, the trouble will be thine, and by the time he's ten he'll begin to earn his grub in the pit; so if thy mind be set on't, there's 'n end o' the matter.
I had been elected to the Savage Club, and one night I encountered there a number of old campaigning men newspaper correspondents, artists, and doctors who were swopping battle yarns among themselves, and who were all agreed with respect to one thing the extraordinary exhilaration which came of being under fire.
Trade is very dull, and a first or even a second national bank in my subdivision of the United States would find itself practically out of a job. A good newspaper, if properly conducted, could have some fun and get a good many advertisements by swopping kind words at regular catalogue prices for goods. But a theater would not pay.
Ford at once obeyed her husband's wish, and as her wonderful voice floated over them it banished every thought save the delight of listening. The "boys" came over from their "Barracks" and sprawled on the grass, entranced. Hitherto, their life on the ranch had been one of toil, lightened by sports almost as rough, with the evening diversion of swopping stories over their pipes.
It learnt him that the deceivingest pusson on earth, when it comes to seeping up licker, is a little feller with his eyes fur apart and one of these here excitable Adamses' apples. "Speaking about it afterwards to a passel of boys over in the swopping ring, he said the experience, while dissapinting at the time, was worth a right smart to him subsequent.
The contrasts, the energy, the mixture of races in America, the overflowing young life of the continent, doubtless give its humorists the richness of its vein. All over the land men are eternally "swopping stories" at bars, and in the long, endless journeys by railway and steamer.
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