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"Uh-huh," agreed Pap, drily, when she tried to put something of this into words. "I spotted that feller for a rogue and a shirk the minute I laid eyes on him. The mill'll tame him. The mill'll make him git down and pull in the collar, I reckon. Women ain't fitten to bring up chillen. A widder's boys allers goes to ruin.
Weddings and teas follow one another like Regret on the heels of Pleasure." "Pretty simile," commented Ruth. "If we go to the tea, we'll have to miss the wedding." "Well, we've been to a wedding quite recently, so I suppose it's better to go to the tea. Perhaps, by arranging it, we might be given nourishment at both places not that I pine for the 'Widder's' cooking.
He'd get up at one o'clock in the morning to doctor a widder's cow. Now, sure he would, when he knows even a dead cow'd make business for the butcher to render up into grease and the cattle dealer to sell another cow." "Not your style of a man then?" the stranger observed. "Oh, pshaw, no, but, as I say, he's got the whole country hoodoo'd.
"Wal," said Bolderwood, "while you git yer breath, Nuck, I'll flay that critter and hang her up. I'm in somethin' of a hurry this mornin'; but as the widder's needin' the meat, we won't leave the carcass to the varmints." "You've been to my house, 'Siah?" cried Enoch, following him across the little glade. "Yes. Jest stopped there on my way down from Manchester.
"In the show business," said Hiram, "when I found a feller with a game that I could play better 'n him, I was always willin' to play his game." He stuck up his hand with the fingers spread like a fan, and began to check items. "A gun won't do, because it's a widder's hens; a fight won't do, because it's Bat Reeves; law won't do, because he's got old heron-legged Alcander right in his family.
'Oh, mim, said Miggs, 'don't relude to that. I had no intentions, mim, that nobody should know. Such sacrifices as I can make, are quite a widder's mite. It's all I have, cried Miggs with a great burst of tears for with her they never came on by degrees 'but it's made up to me in other ways; it's well made up. This was quite true, though not perhaps in the sense that Miggs intended.
I always thought, up to three days ago, that the names of Veller and gammon could never come into contract, Sammy, never. 'Always exceptin' the case of a widder, of course, said Sam. 'Widders, Sammy, replied Mr. Weller, slightly changing colour. 'Widders are 'ceptions to ev'ry rule. I have heerd how many ordinary women one widder's equal to in pint o' comin' over you.
They'll be feared ye'd be forever pickin' an' stealin'." "But we-uns will stand up fur ye, bein' ez ye air the widder's son," said Byers eagerly. "We-uns will gin the Griggs tribe ter onderstand that." "An' mebbe the Griggses won't want ter do nuthin', ef they hain't got no furder cause fur holdin' a grudge," put in the tanner. "What be ye a-layin' off fur me ter do?" asked Birt wonderingly.
After breakfast, which was a movable feast at the "Widder's," he went after his mail and brought hers also. When he reached the top of the hill, she was always waiting for him. "This devotion is very pleasing," he remarked, one morning. "Some people are easily pleased," she retorted. "I dislike to spoil your pleasure, but my stern regard for facts compels me to say that it is not Mr.
"There they be, blast 'em to fury!" growled the Cap'n. His eyes then wandered farther, as though seeking something familiar, and he clutched the showman's arm as they walked along. "And there's Bat Reeves's gray hoss hitched in the widder's dooryard." "Mebbe he'll wait and have fricasseed rooster for dinner," suggested Hiram, grimly. "That's all his rooster'll be good for in fifteen minutes."
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