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Leigh. "But tell me, Belle, what made you leave the Graingers? I thought you were a fixture there." "Yes'm, I reckon I'd be living there yit, if 'twarn't fur ole Marse Andrew. He done sassed me too much, Miss Sally. Aunt Judy she say, 'Better stay whar de pot biles hardes', Belle, but I couldn't stan' ole Marse Andrew." "I had forgotten about Aunt Judy. Is she still living?" asked Mrs. Leigh.
"Wrong you are, for once, Jerry! 'Twarn't no more Mackerel than it was Camberwell." Said Mr. Jerry: "Take an even tizzy on it, Mo?" He twisted the paper about to recover the paragraph, and found it. "Here we are! 'Ralph Daverill, alias Thornton, alias Wix, alias! ..." "Never mind his ale-houses, Jerry. That's the name I'm consarned with Daverill.... What's the matter with M'riar?"
"'Twarn't Jedge D'Willerby bought the land," he went on to explain, "'n' it seems like he would hev bin a fool to hev done it, bein' as 'tain't worked an' brings in nothin'. But ye never know how things may turn out. 'Twas the Jedge's gran'father, old Isham D'Willerby bought it fer a kinder joke.
I kept urgin' my hoss, and the critter kep' tryin', but I see he was about blowed, an' 'twarn't no use. I had just concluded I must take to the river, when I happened to look up and see a dozen soldiers coming right towards me. The Injuns see 'em as quick as I did, and the way they turned and put back was a caution to anything I ever see." "What were the soldiers doing there?" asked Ned.
He had squandered a nickel in trying to head off the flow of the storekeeper's story, and felt that he was entitled to something besides the Brown Mule. Cap'n Abe kept to his course apparently unruffled: "Cap'n Am'zon an' the other feller lashed the poor chap han's an' feet and so kep' him from goin' overboard. But mebbe 'twarn't a marciful act after all.
It was a coincidence, of course, though a most remarkable one, I must admit. A collision! Thank God for all His mercies!" "If it was only a coincidence I don't exactly see what there is to thank God for," remarked Austin, very drily. "'Twarn't no coincidence," averred old Martha, solemnly. "On that I'll stake my soul." "What was it, then?" retorted Aunt Charlotte.
"There's nothing like plenty of Epsum salts for boys. I'd try 'em on him, Mother Duff." "Dan, dear," said Susan Peckaby insinuatingly for she had come in along with the rest, ignoring for the moment what might be waiting at her door "was it in the pound as you saw Rachel's ghost?" "'Twarn't Rachel's ghost as I did see," persisted Dan. "Tell us who it was, then?" asked she, humouring him.
Ole Cap didn' want to shock his young massa, so thought 'twarn't de wisest way to tell him 'twarn't de sparrer-house, either, at first. 'Twas de inside ob de libery, if he must know de troof; wet an' smutty dar now, mebbe, but no fire." "Why not? What made the fire go out?" asked Mr. Raleigh, composedly.
There's pertaters to be fried, an' the children's lunches to put up, an' John Alexander's lost his jography I believe that boy'd lose his head if it twarn't glued to his shoulders. There's a button off Stephen's collar, an' Susan Ann wants her hair curled, an' Polly's frettin' to be taken up.
"Why wouldn't you be a legal witness, Tamar?" "'Caze I got de same man an' dat's de suspiciouses' thing dey kin bring up ag'ins' a witness so dey tell me. Ef 'twarn't for dat, I'd 'a' had her fun'al preached las' month."
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