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Wraggles, I'd be askin' ye to marry me. Then the gal ups and sez, sez she: 'But I AIN'T Mrs. Wraggles, sez she; 'Mrs. Wraggles is my sister, and couldn't come, so I'm travelin' on her ticket, and that's how my name is Wraggles on the passenger list. 'But why didn't ye tell me so at once? sez Lummox.
"From a travelin' feller that wandered up into our mount'ins. He could play it an' sing it most beautiful, an' I took to it right off. It grips you about the heart some way or other, an' it sounds best when you are out at night on a river like this. Harry, I know that you're goin' through our mountins to git to Richmond an' the war. Me an' that lunkhead Ike, my nephew, hev took a likin' to you.
The old lady was pacified by this compliment but looked askance at Harry. "Is he your son?" "No, ma'am." The old lady sniffed, as if to say, "So much the better for you." "Are you travelin' far?" asked the old lady. "What do you want to know for?" Harry appeared to ask. "You're a sassy boy!" exclaimed the old woman.
And I sez, "You may as well spend your money travelin' as in any other way." "Yes, I love to travel when I can travel with human creeters, and I might as well spend my money for myself as to leave it for my cousins to fight over, and I can pay my way mostly sellin' my book; and I've left my stuff so it won't spile." "Where is Waitstill Webb?" sez I.
"Showin' themselves for bait, plainlike?" Kirby asked. "If we have to. The alarm will have gone out. I'm bettin' there're patrols thick on that road." "Any blue bellies travelin' theah now are gonna be bunched an' ready to shoot at anything movin'." "So," Croff cut in over Webb's instant objection, "you get some Yankees a-hittin' it up after you, and you run for here.
"I've simply been trying to persuade him to do as much toward securing the future of you two as Mr. Whitney is willing to do. Don't be absurd, Hiram. You know better than to talk that way." Hiram looked steadily at her. "You've been travelin' about, 'Tilda," he said, "gettin' together a lot of newfangled notions. Ellen and I and our children stick to the old way."
As they hustled up, the miner was greeted right and left. "Hello, Eph. What's your hurry?" "Injuns after you?" "What's the news from yonder?" "Thought you'd left the country." "How are things at your diggin's?" "Cleaned up your pile already?" "By the way you're travelin' you must have made a strike, or else you're after grub!" "Strike!" growled Eph. "You bet thar is, an' somethin' to pay, too.
"Come, sir," said the highwayman, "fork out, if you please; and be quick about it, if you're wise." "Give a body time, if you plaise," responded the priest, who at that moment had about him all the marks and tokens of a farmer, or, at least, of a man who wished to pass for one. "I think," he added, "if you knew who you had, you'd not only pass me by, but the very coach I'm travelin' in.
Josiah said they wuz afraid to land on Thousand Island Park for fear of bein' fined for travelin' on Sunday, but it wuzn't so, they didn't come because it wuz so sultry and kinder muggy. I'd hearn that the man who wuz goin' to preach wuz a dretful smart man, a Evangelist and Temperance Lecturer.
"It sure is. Say, Ed, we got to split, anyhow. Why don't you git to goin'? It ain't like you was quittin' me cold." "You're a mighty white kid, Pete. And I'm goin' to tell you right now that you got a heap more sense and nerve than me, at any turn of the game. You been goin' round to-night on cold nerve and I been travelin' on whiskey.
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