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"The people's just as different as chalk is from cheese; and there ain't a church in Boston and there's hundreds of 'em that don't make our Union Church look silly." "But, Miz' Petrie," cried one inquiring body. "Just what is it that makes Boston so different from Poketown? After all, folks is folks and houses is houses and streets is streets. Ain't that so?" "Wa-al!"
This was so unusual a method of seeking entrance to a hardware store that Scattergood sat up abruptly, blinking. "Wa-al," he said, tartly, "be you comin' in, or be you goin' to stand out there wagglin' that door knob all day?" "I'm coming in, Mr.
"But we want you sh'u'd help us." "G'-by," said Scattergood again, as he moved off ponderously into the darkness. The elder moved nearer Bogle and endeavored to peer into his face. "Be you sure she's the same one?" he asked, in a confidential whisper. "Wa-al they was about the same heft," said Bogle, "and if this hain't her, it ought to be.
"Was you pooty sick aboard the boat?" "Not at all." "That's curous! Women 'most alluz is, 'specially wen it's so ruffly as it is to-day. Was bubby sick any?" "No." "Wa-al, that's very fortnit, for I don't blieve he'll be sick wen he grows up an' goes walin'. It's pooty tryin', the fust two or three weeks out, ginerally. How young is he a-goin' to begin?" "I do not think he will ever go to sea."
There ain't a place, I'll be bound, in the whole town, that needs cleaning up more'n this, your store!" "I ain't no dirtier than anybody else!" roared Jones, very red-faced. "But you aim to be. So you say. When other folks all about you are goin' to clean up, you say you won't be driv' to it. Wa-al!
Wa-al, you stay till Thursday mornin' and kind of visit with Homer, and say good-by, and then you kin go. Thursday mornin'.... Not a minute before." "But " "Thursday mornin's the time, I said.... G'-by." Next morning Scattergood was absent. He had taken the early train out of town, as Pliny Pickett reported, on a "whoppin' big deal that come up suddin in the night."
I mean it," he added, when he caught the incipient rebellion in Jerry's weather-beaten face. "I'm bossing things here to-day. He didn't hit anybody, and I'm beginning to think we can get through the day without any real trouble, if we go easy." "Wa-al " Jerry scratched his stubbly jaw reflectively with his free hand, and looked down at his captive.
"Wa-al, no," said Triggs, "I woan't do that, 'cos they as I'se got here might smell un out; but I'll tell 'ee what: I knaws a chap as has in many ways bin beholden to me 'fore now, and I reckon if I gives un the cue he'll do the job for 'ee." "But do you think he's to be trusted?" Eve asked.
"Wa-al, I ain't downright slick and hearty agin, that's a fact; fur my innards got a'most druv into smash! But I'm picking up, I guess, and feed reg'ler; so I s'pose I'll do, Cap, for an old hoss, eh? Durned if I don't feel kinder peckish now.
Bud swept off his sombrero as he dashed up, and was apparently about to make some jocular remark, but he stopped short at the sight of Peggy's pale, anxious face. "Wa-al, what's all ther trouble hyar?" he demanded; "your sky bronco foundered? Why hello, thar's Wandering William. Didn't know as you was a sky pilot feller?" "I'm not, I guess," rejoined Wandering William quietly.
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