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Rust can't get to eat none 'thout water, no more'n a deer can stay out of a salt lick, or Erne Moore can keep away from the habitaw gals, or Tit Moody can get his own consent to stop his tongue waggin' off tales 'bout how women winks down t' Tupper Lake when he's rowin' 'em." "Shouldn't think such a little water as you have used would make the gun hot enough to dry it out," I suggested. "Hot!
Accordingly, ae day when my faither was oot, and naebody in the shop but mysel "Jock," cried I, waggin the boy in, "come here a minnit."
Got kind o' skeered an' skittish when we sot down together, an' come to think it all over, 'twouldn't 'a' been right. "'You're wrong, Solomon, I answered. 'You ought to have a home of your own and a wife to make you fond of it. How is the Little Cricket? "'Cunnin'est little shaver that ever lived, said he. 'I got him a teeny waggin an' drawed him down to the big medder an' back.
It's as though mother were never to have any pleasure in any of us! Nothing but worry and opposition! behind her back, too." "My dear! it was probably nothing! Girls do just as they like nowadays, and who notices!" said Waggin, disingenuously. "And as to pleasing your mother, I know somebody who has only to put out her hand "
Father did leave the estates to mother just because Corry had taken up such views so that she might keep us straight." "But afterward! My dear, he is so young! And young men change." Lady Coryston's death was not, of course, to be mentioned except with this awe and vagueness scarcely to be thought of. But hotter revolutionists than Corry have turned Tories by forty. Waggin harped on this theme.
"On the top o' yonder craggy mounting. He sat down on the smoke-blackened stones by the fire. "'Ow did you get 'im?" said McBride, professional humorist, quietly filching the English weekly from under Copper's armpit. "On the chin while 'e was waggin' it at me." "What is 'e?
I'll swing the bow toward Heaven 'stead o' Hell an' keep her p'inted straight an' it won't cost ye a penny. They's too much swearin' on this 'ere ship. Can't nobody be a Christian with his guts a-b'ilin'. His tongue'll break loose an' make his soul look like a waggin with a smashed wheel an' a bu'sted ex. A cook could do more good here than a minister." "Can you cook?"
"No; but it's allus the same," Rube regretted. "It's allus you that helps me. How many times have you saved my life since we come out on this yer trip? I never get half a chance to save yours. Never!" "Keep your face still, can't you?" ordered Kiddie. "How d'you expect me ter fix up this cut on your cheek if you keep on waggin' your jaw?"
Divil a toe I'll set a waggin' in any other place this night, says she; 'for 'tis there we're both well thrated wid the best the house can afford.
I'm sure if the waggin' of a tail could do it you wouldn't be long about it! Why on earth can't 'ee keep it still for a bit? Well, then, as we can't swim or fly, and haven't a boat or canoe, or the means o' makin' em, what's the next thing to be done?"
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