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"Help yourself, colonel," he said hospitably. "No, thank you; I don't chew." "Shoo, you don't say so! High time you began, then." "I don't think I shall ever form the habit of chewing." "Yes, you will, colonel; everybody does. Travellin' on business?" "Well, not exactly," said Jasper, hesitatingly. "That is, I am looking for a chance to go into business."
Sez I, "Do be reasonable; it ain't logic or religion to expect to be to home and travellin' abroad at the same time."
"Why, what's the mattah, honey?" she exclaimed. "Did Emma Louise make you mad? Or is you cryin' 'cause you're so ti'ed? Come! Ole Becky'll tote her baby the rest of the way." She picked the light form up in her arms, and, pressing the troubled little face against her shoulder, resumed her walk and her song. "It's a world of trouble we're travellin' through, Fa'well, my dyin' friends."
"'What in natur' is this, sais I, as I gave Old Clay a crack of the whip, to push on. 'There is some critters here, I guess, that have found a haw haw's nest, with a tee hee's egg in it. What's in the wind now? Well, a sudden turn of the road brought me to where they was, and who should they be but French officers from the Prince's ship, travellin' incog. in plain clothes.
Never did, since the day Master Tom was killed. James was travellin' with Master Tom, you know, and there was an accident, an' the train run off'n the track an' tipped over. James wasn't hurt at all, but he dragged Master Tom out'n the wreck and sat by him until he died.
And this this Miss Norvell, why she's the leadin' lady, and the travellin' men tell me she's simply immense. There's one of their show bills hanging over there back of the stove." Winston sauntered across to the indicated red and yellow abomination, and dumbly stood staring at it through the blue rings of his cigar.
The driver's conversation tone to his passengers was also a yell. "Train was an hour late t'night," he said, addressing the interior. "It'll be nine o'clock before we git t' th' inn, an' it'll be perty dark travellin'." Hawker waited decently, but at last he said, "Will it?" "Yes. No moon." He turned to face Hawker, and roared, "You're ol' Jim Hawker's son, hain't yeh?" "Yes."
The She-one had a set o' hoops on her big as a circus tent. Much as I could do to git her in the 'bus as it was, she come in sideways. And her trunk! Well, it oughter been on wheels one o' them travellin' houses. I thought one spell I'd take the old plug out the shafts and hook on to it and git it up that-a-way." "Some of Lucy's chums, I guess," chuckled Uncle Ephraim.
He was also overwhelmed with compliments of all hues and complexions: one reminded him of the victory he obtained over a hedge-schoolmaster who came one Sunday a distance of fifteen miles to sack him in English Grammar on the chapel-green; but as the man was no classical scholar, "Sure," observed his neighbor, "I remember well that he couldn't get a word out of Misther Denis's head there but Latin; so that the poor crathur, afther travellin' fifteen long miles, had to go home agin, the show o' the world, widout undherstandin' a sintence of the larnin' that was put an him; an' so here's wishin' you health, Misther Dinis, agra, an' no fear in life but you'll be the jewel at the prachin, sir, plase Goodness!"
"And ye want to treat 'em with some perliteness, too they're older'n anything 'round here 'cept the rocks; and they've been holdin' up the dignity of this valley, too, kind o' 'sponsible for things. That's another thing ye mustn't forgit. The fust folks that come travellin' through this notch 'bout time the Injins quit, took notice on 'em, I tell ye. That's what they come for.
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