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"But you're not a railroad, Mr. Baines." "Yes I be, Johnnie. To-morrow I'll be layin' rails to prove it." "But you own land right adjoining Crane and Keith's yards. Plenty of it." "Not plenty, Johnnie.... Not plenty. As long as Crane and Keith owns anything in this neighborhood I hain't got plenty of it. Get the idee?" "You want to run them out?" "Wa-al, they hain't been exactly friendly to me.
"Wa-al I might," confessed Dexter, looking her over with a quizzical smile. "But us'ally the Days ain't in no hurry." "Then this is one Day who is in a hurry," she said, briefly. "What is your charge for delivering the trunk, sir?" "Oh 'bout a quarter, Miss. And gimme that suitcase, too. 'Twon't cost ye no more, and I'll git 'em there before Jason and you reach the house.
Red Bill Summers threw himself from his pony and, lying full length beside the creek that trickled through the valley from the springs above, he reveled in the water. When he had drunk his fill he stood erect. "Wa-al," he drawled, running his hand through his stubbly red crop, "I reckon we're home again." From one of the huts at the upper end of the miniature valley an odd figure emerged.
"I wish I were, and then may be I could help out on this difficulty." "Wa-al, what's up?" drawled Bud, as his followers came loping up; "anything I kin do? We're on our way back to ther hills frum town," he explained. "We caught more than twenty wild horses and took'em inter Blue Creek. One of ther boys sighted you away off or we'd have missed yer I reckin.
I never see'd maids take on as they'm doin'; but there! I reckon 'twill soon be put a end to now." "How so?" said Adam. "Wa-al, you mustn't knaw, down below, more than you'm tawld," said the old man with a significant wink and a jerk of his head, "but Jerrem he let me into it this ebenin' when he rinned up to see me for a bit.
"I gin'rally feel right po'ly after dinner, and I'm use ter takin' forty winks." Janice did not wonder that her aunt felt "right po'ly." She had eaten more pork, potatoes, spring cabbage and fresh bread than would have served a hearty man. "Let's get rid of the dishes first, Aunty," said Janice, cheerfully. "You can get your nap afterward." "Wa-al," agreed Mrs. Day, slowly rising.
There's more sense in givin' a model that's by way o' bein' a work av art than any candle. Ye can buy candles at store, but a model shows the good saints ye've tuk trouble an' are grateful." "D'you believe that, Irish?" said Tom Platt, turning on his elbow. "Would I do ut if I did not, Ohio?" "Wa-al, Enoch Fuller he made a model o' the old Ohio, and she's to Calem museum now.
"Wa-al, ma'rm, if it warn't for me, as Mr Meldrum here will tell you, I've no doubt yer wouldn't have a chimbley, nor nary fire to sot by inside haar!" "A fine smoky chimney it is too!" retorted Mrs Major Negus. "It is quite suffocating, I declare." "That's better nor bein' friz," said the American, with some little heat.
"Oh, Captain Triggs, don't say that if Adam gets off you don't think Jerrem's life will be spared." "Wa-al, my poor maid, us must hope so," said the compassionate captain; "but 'tis the warst o' they doin's that sooner or later th' endin, of 'em must come.
"Wa-al, I dew hope so," drawled the American, with a sigh and a yawn of weariness, "guess I shall snooze till it comes;" and he proceeded to carry his thought into execution. Captain Dinks turned out a true prophet.
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