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"I hear 'em trampin' around!" exclaimed Budge, in great excitement. "There! the piano's shut! Isn't that too mean! Oh, I'll tell you here's Uncle Harry's violin." "Then whatsh I goin' to play on?" asked Toddie, dancing frantically about. "Wait a minute," said Budge, dropping the violin, and hurrying to the floor above, from which he speedily returned with a comb.
"'Old on there," said the waggoner, "an' ye'll be as safe as though ye was in Abram's bosom. Not that I knows much about Abram anyway. Wheer abouts d'ye want in Minehead?" "The railway station." "Right y' are! That's my ticket too. Tired o' trampin' it, I s'pose, aint ye?" "A bit tired yes. I've walked since daybreak." The waggoner cracked his whip, and the horses plodded on.
Ben turned, and said composedly: "I am looking out." "Why are you not in bed and asleep, like your friend?" "I tried to sleep, sir, but I couldn't." "Do you expect to get to sleep looking out of that hole?" "I thought I'd see how light it was." "Well, I can't have you trampin' round, keepin' the old woman and me awake.
"O' course not," replied Shif'less Sol readily, "an' fur the minute I ain't either. I'm a water dog, trampin' 'roun' in the Detroit River, an' enjoyin' myself. Ain't you happy, too, Henry?" "I was never more so in my life," replied Henry emphatically, "and I can say, too, that this is about the finest swim I ever took. Are the others all right, Sol?" "They shorely are.
Somehow this encouraged Frank, and entering he put his question timidly, in his broad Buckinghamshire accent. The woman smiled at him good-naturedly. "From the country, I reckon?" she said, not answering his question. "Ah," replied Frank, "I be." "You're a dillicate little feller to be trampin' about alone seekin' work," she said, considering him thoughtfully. "Is yer mother livin'?"
Twitt seemed rather sorry for this commonplace end to what she imagined was a thrilling incident "But the way that bird looked at me was somethin' awful! An' when I 'eerd as 'ow you'd found a friend o' yer father's a' trampin' an' wanderin' an' 'ad took 'im in to board an' lodge on trust, I sez to Twitt 'There you've got the meanin' o' that sea-gull!
The herb-gatherer looked for a moment at the thin, refined white hand extended to him before grasping it in his own horny palm. Then "Good-night, old chap!" he responded heartily. "Ef I don't see ye i' the mornin' I'll leave ye a bottle o' yerb wine to take along wi' ye trampin', for the more ye drinks o't the soberer ye'll be an' the better ye'll like it.
In the early Thirties; tu shillin' the bottle; there's no such wine nowadays and," he added, looking at Zachary, "no such men." Zachary smiled and said: "You did nothing so big, dad, as what I'm after, now!" The old man's eyes had a sort of disdain in them. "You're going far, then, in the Pied Witch, Zack?" "I am," said Zachary. "And where might yu be goin' in that old trampin' smut factory?"
When father was alive no gale that ever blew could keep him from trampin' up to the office after his mornin' paper. He used to say that readin' the paper was the only way he could keep enough canvas drawing to pull him out of the doldrums. More of his sea talk, that was, of course, but you understand what he meant." Galusha understood. "We all have our ah doldrums," he observed.
Don't any of you go trampin' all over the room with your muddy boots. I've got work enough to do without scrubbin' floors after a pack of My land! I do believe it's scorched. An' the corn-bread must be " Phineas, after a doubtful look at the stopped-up door-crack, led the way into the sitting-room. Zachariah came last with his master's boots and coat.
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