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"Wal, the cap'n he tried to comfort her up: but no, she wouldn't be comforted, but went on a weepin' and a wailin, and a wringin' on her hands, till the poor cap'n's heart was a'most broke; for the cap'n was the tenderest-hearted critter that could be, and couldn't bear to see a child or a woman in trouble noways. "'O cap'n! said she, 'I'm the most unfortunate woman.
They rose up blurred, indistinct, dark; here and there winking candles sent long lines of light through the shadows, and little drops of unforeseen rain rippled the sheeny darkness of the water. "Wal, you see, boys, in them things it's jest as well to mind your granny. There's a consid'able sight o' gumption in grandmas.
"No, no; it's not that I mean. My religion has nothing to do with Swampville. Thank the Lord for his mercy, I've been led into a surer way of salvation. I suppose, Brother Holt, you've heard of the new Revelation?" "Heern o' the new rev'lation. Wal, I don't know as I hev. What's the name o't?" "The book of Mormon?" "Oh! Mormons! I've hearn o' them.
And you don't believe it? I do, every word of it! I am sure it is true!" "Wal, ye see," said the farmer, meditatively; "Ef' t was true, what become o' the necklace? That's what I say. Father believed it, sure enough, and he thought he hed that necklace, as sure as you think you hev that bunnit in yer hand. But 'twarn't never found, hide nor hair of it." "Might he not have sold it?"
"Wal," drawled the captain, "that's likely enough. If ye see one on 'em drivin' or walkin' roun', you're like enough to see t'other, for they're lover-like yet, if they has got a big fam'ly part grown up.
"Luck's running your way, Jennie; the stockmen have moved their camp since Fred left this morning." "Mercy! I thought I had only two or three miles farther to go." "Their camp isn't more'n half a mile off, right over the swell yonder; we'll be there in a jiffy." "And you will go with me?" "Wal, I reckon; what sort of a chap do you take me for?" "Where is Weber?"
Bill grunted and forgot Jasper. But he seemed restless and dissatisfied. Duane knew him to be an inveterate gambler. And as Benson's place was out of running-order, Black was like a fish on dry land. "Wal, if you-all are afraid of the cairds, what will you bet on?" he asked, in disgust. "Bill, I'll play you a game of mumbly peg fer two bits." replied one. Black eagerly accepted.
Lenore gathered from the look of her father and the cowboy that something was amiss, but she could not guess what it might be. Nash bent sullenly at his task of driving. "I reckon about here," said Jake, waving his hand. "Stop her," ordered Anderson, and as the car came to a halt he got out, followed by Jake. "Wal, I marked it by thet rock," declared the cowboy. "So did I," responded Anderson.
Under the title of Kitab al Mahasin wal Azdad we likewise possess a work ascribed to Jahiz. Both these books evidently go to a common origin. It is quite possible that antithesis was originally not excluded from these Kutub al-Mahasin, from which were developed a special species of educative treatises, those on "good qualities and their opposites."
"Let them come," said Jean. "I sent for Blaisdell, Blue, Gordon, and Fredericks. Maybe they'll get here in time. But if they don't it needn't worry us much. We can hold out here longer than Jorth's gang can hang around. We'll want plenty of water, wood, and meat in the house." "Wal, I'll see to that," rejoined his father. "Jean, you go out close by, where you can see all around, an' keep watch."
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