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Absalom's mother, standing beside Peter, the eldest son, in the doorway, watched her long one day. "It all kem about from that thar bran dance," said Peter, a homely man, with a sterling, narrow-minded wife and an ascetic sense of religion. "Thar Satan waits, an' he gits nimbler every time ye shake yer foot.
"That's what's the matter of me. It's over thar on the island whar them fellers is!" "No!" gasped Dan. "But I say, yes, it is too!" exclaimed Godfrey. "You see," he added, controlling himself with a great effort, "when I fust seed them fellers comin' up the bayou the sun was kinder shinin' on the water, an' it blinded me so't I thought it was you.
But, face working, eyes blazing, Old Man Thornycroft started forward, and the dog, panting, shrank between boy and mother. "Jim Kirby!" cried the old man, stopping for a moment in the cleared space. "You're magistrate. What you say goes. But that dog thar he's mine! He's my property mine by law!" He jerked a piece of rope out of his overcoat pocket and came on toward the cowering dog.
Accordingly on Thursday afternoon, just as the sun was setting, they entered Mr. Middleton’s yard, where they were received by the dogs, with just such a demonstration of anger as had greeted Mr. Wilmot more than a year before. The master of the house was this time at home, and soon appearing at the door, he called out to the negroes who were in the yard, "Ho, thar, boys!
Them fellers never won't be happy till after they git another dose into their systems, an' thar 's liable ter be some considerable lead eat afore night. When they does git braced up, an' they reckon up all this yere means, they 'll shore be an ugly bunch."
When he could do no more, he looked it over with approval and said: "Thar! If I'd a done that for Miss Butterworth, I couldn't 'a' done better nor that." Then he went back to his cabin muttering: "I wonder what she'd 'a' said if she'd hearn that little speech o' mine!" What remained for Jim to do was to make provision to feed his boarders.
"Seven thousand dollars," he added softly; "and there's not a finer in Virginia." "Thar was nobody to bid agin me, you see," explained Fletcher easily. "The old gentleman was as poor as Job's turkey then, besides going doty mighty fast."
"If it hadn't been for that ar I mean that thar no, that baby I wouldn't have known you!" she said dreamily. "No," returned North, mischievously, "but you still would have known Hank Fisher." No woman is perfect. Miss Bessy looked at him with a sudden her first and last flash of coquetry. Then stooped and kissed the baby. James North was a simple gentleman, but not altogether a fool.
"Why?" said Bill, turning on him savagely, "why? because I warn't a fool. Thar was you, winnin' your way in college; thar was YOU, risin' in the world, and of some account to it; yer was an old bummer, ez good ez dead to it, a man ez oughter been dead afore! a man ez never denied it! But you allus liked him better nor me," said Bill, bitterly.
"Howdy, men," began the new arrival affably as he stood towering over the telegraph operator. Then looking down at that person he added with awkward, back-country diffidence: "Stranger, be ye ther feller thet works thet thar telegraph?" The seated man looked up and nodded.
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