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Judge Adams thought war inevitable. Abraham Lincoln thought it could be averted. They both dreaded it. I was young, and I hoped for it. 'What'll you do, Jim, if war should come? they asked me once. 'I'd go as a private, I told them. "If the war had come then I should have gone with the first regiment out.
I'll make ye as pretty a little stone as iver ye saw what'll last too! ay, last till th' Almighty comes a' tearin' down in clouds o' glory. A stone well bedded in, ye unnerstan'? one as'll stay upright no slop work. An' if ye can't think of a hepitaph for yerself I'll write one for ye there now!
I'll bet that will help it on the outside much as Mac's medicine will inside." "What'll y'u do for my heart, ma'am, if it gits bad the way Denver figures it will?" "Y'u might try a mustard plaster," she gurgled, with laughter. For once the debonair foreman's ready tongue had brought him to defeat. He was about to retire from the field temporarily when Nora herself offered first aid to the wounded.
"Powder River bucked after he was roped an' tried to break away. The other horse, like any good cowpony does, leaned back on the rope an' dug a toe-hold." "Where's Houck going?" "Brown's Park likely, from the way they're headed." "What'll we do?" "Why, drap in on them to-night kinda casual an' say 'Much obliged for roundin' up our stray bronc for us." This programme did not appeal to Bob.
Got her name all 'graved on it nice an' pretty? Thash what'll square wifely when I been out hic al'night. Wheresh my paper cutter, Darcy, ol' man?" Silently the jewelry worker pointed to the stained dagger it was really that, though designed for a paper cutter. The detective held it out, and the red spots on it seemed to show brighter in the gleam of the electric lights.
And there's the sixpence, Jan; and if thee minds pigs as well as 'ee draas 'em, I don't care how long 'ee minds mine." The object of his visit being now accomplished, Jan took up his hat to depart, but an important omission struck him, and he turned to say, "What'll 'ee give me for minding your pigs, Master Salter?" Master Salter was economical, and Jan was small, and anxious for the place.
"That bag had all my things in it: pajamas, brushes and comb and collars and handkerchiefs and and everything! I'd like to know what I'm going to sleep in!" "I dare say we'll get our trunks to-night," said Tom soothingly. "If we don't you can have my pajamas." "What'll you wear?" asked Steve more graciously. "Anything. I don't mind. I say, Steve, let's see what's in the bag he left!"
The fleet anchored a hundred yards up the eddy, and Rasba heard a woman say it was after midnight and she'd be blanked if she ever did or would dance on Sunday. The dance broke up, the noise of voices lessened, one by one the lights went out, and the eddy was still again. But the feeling of loneliness was changed. "Lord God, what'll I preach to them about?" Rasba whispered.
"See there, Janet," said Spink, pointing to Maggie, and looking earnestly at his wife. "Weel-a-weel," replied Janet, somewhat softened, yet with much firmness, "I'll no deny that the man was fond o' the bairn, and it liked him weel enough; but, my certes! he wad hae made a bad man o' you if he could. But I'm real sorry for Ruby Brand; and what'll the puir lassie Gray do?
"I!" exclaimed Kate. "Rob, you mean." "That's a good dog," said Mr. Darby, the storekeeper; "what'll you take for him?" "Not for sale," said Harry. "Rob's all very well," remarked Tony Kirk; "but it won't do to have a feller like that in the woods, a fright'nin' the children. I'd like to know who he is."
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