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Updated: June 6, 2025
He's been talkin' about Broadway for nearly a week now, steady." "May I enquire what he is doing up here in the wilds?" "At present he ain't doing anything except talk. Last week he was treadin' the boards, as he puts it himself. Busted. Up the flue.
But och wirra wirra the roof's off of the house och the look of the black houle wid the rafters stickin' thro' it, and ne'er a breath of smoke, till me heart was sick watchin' to see might there be an odd one; and the door clap-clappin'. Sure be that I well knew the child was dead, and me father quit out of it, or maybe buried himself, and I after lavin' them dyin' and starvin'. So for 'fraid somebody'd be comin' out and tellin' me, off I run away into the bog, till I was treadin' here in the could wather.
We Thunderers, the Goliath treadin mighty jealous on our heels. And who commanded the Thunderer? Old Ding-dong. And what did he get for it?" He smacked a hand down on the boy's shoulder.
That man had begun life poor poor as a snipe; sometimes I used to handle that very word "Snipe" a-describin' Elnathan Allen's former circumstances to Josiah, when he got too overbearin' about him. For he had boasted to me about him for years, and years, and a woman can't stand only jest about so much aggravatin' and treadin' on before she will turn like a worm.
"Why?" cried Mrs. Trapes bitterly, "I'll tell you why because me an' Hermy an' every one else is bein' squeezed dry t' fill the pockets of a thing as calls itself a man a thievin' beast on two legs as is suckin' our blood, gnawin' our flesh, grindin' the life out of us a great fat man as is treadin' us down under his great boots, down an' down to slavery death an' worse it's such men as him as keeps the flames of hell goin' fat frizzles well, an' so will Mulligan, I hope!"
"'Woman, sez he in a lofty kind of way, which reminded me of a young rooster tryin' to crow, 'do ye realize what yer talkin' about? Do ye know yer treadin' on delicate ground? "'Yes, sez I, 'when I tread on a man's toes, it's purty delicate ground. "'I don't mean that, sez he.
He ran his eye with satisfaction over her costume, from head to foot, and nodded. "You ain't never seen much of rough life, now have you, Barbara?" He turned, then, to Miss Alathea. "These young folks, raised the way we raise 'em, nowadays, get thinkin' that the whole world has been smoothed out for their treadin' an' they ain't far wrong. We do smooth out the world for 'em.
It's nobody's minding that keeps sike men as thou afloat. Noo then, where be'est thou coomin' to? Dang it, dinnot coom treadin' ower me, mun.
Stover's captive ground his teeth and struggled briefly, then turned and made for the open prairie without a word. "It's his first love," said Stover, simply. The other foreman exploded into hoarse laughter, saying: "I didn't reckon I was treadin' on the toes of no bereafed relatif's, but them church tunes ain't my style. However, we're wastin' time, gents. Where's that bunk-house?
"Jest look at that red ha'r. Say, easy, boys, we're treadin' it around in the mud." It was true. The great masses of the girl's red-gold hair had fallen loose and were trailing in the water as Buck held her. It reached from the man's shoulder, where her head was pillowed, and the heavy-footed men were trampling the ends of it into the mud.
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