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I turned fiercely round to see that his black face was full of animation, and eyes and lips bright with mischievous glee, all of which annoyed me the more, for what business had he to be happy when I was so disappointed, out of humour, and miserable? "Be off! Why don't you go to work, sir?" "Won't Mass' George come in de wood?" "No. Be off!" "Pomp come and have a 'wim 'long o' Mass' George?"
My reverie was interrupted by Pomp, who said briskly "Now, Mass' George, what you tink?" "We must get across the river at once." Pomp made a grimace. "How we 'wim ober dah wid de 'gator all awaiting to hab us for breakfass, Mass' George?" I shuddered as I thought of the task, but it seemed as if that was the only thing to do, and then tramp along the opposite bank downward. "What are you doing?"
"No get um?" he said with a laugh. "Pomp no get um? Wait a bit." "Why, how could you manage?" "No manage 'tall. 'Wim dah, and 'wim back."
"Certainly," Carey said, with some hesitancy. "I'll tell her so. She will love you, too. She is mery sweet," Leigh assured him. "Where are you going to?" "I'm going back to Kansas soon." "Wim me?" "I should like to. Let's go together." Leigh slid quickly from the chair and ran inside, where Doctor Carey heard her clear childish voice saying, "He is going to Kansas, too, Miss Jane.
"He was going to be back to dinner." "I go round de oder way. Mass' say I chop wood, and I was going to chop wood till I hear you say Morgan you go for walk, and I know you go for 'wim." "Well?" "Pomp very hurt upon Mass' George." "Oh, were you?" I said. "Mass' George say cruel fing to Pomp, so um go an' fess de ole 'gator head, and undress umself, an' get in de water firs, an' fright um."
"No, nor I ain't fought out any bumble-bees' nest since the time you got one up your pant leg and pretty near pounded yourself to death with a ball bat," said Sim. "Can you still run as fast as the time Wert Payley and I dared you to ride Malstead's bull?" "Where's Wert?" demanded Banks. They were shaking hands now, using all four of them. "Say, I've got to see him and Wim. Horn.
All the same, when they saw she had staying power, and a kind of Transpontine sense of drama in her, the populace mocked less and applauded more. Why not? She was very much like an overblown Adelphi heroine, and they could see her act for nothing. But every time she apostrophized the 'Wim men nof Vinglund! two of those same gave way to overcharged feelings. 'Oh, my dear, I can't stand this!
For her language, flowery and grandiloquent, was excruciatingly genteel, one moment conveyed by minced words through a pursed mouth, and the next carried away on a turgid tide of rhetoric the swimmer in this sea of sentiment flinging out braceleted arms, and bawling appeals to the 'Wim men nof Vinglund! The crowd howled with derisive joy.
The derivation of the name Wimborne, or Winborne as we find it sometimes written, has been much disputed; but as we find the same word appearing as the name of several other places which lie on the course of the same stream, now generally called the Allen, though sometimes the Wim, it is highly probable that the name is derived from that of the river.
Six miles north of Poole, in the valley of the Stour where that river is joined by the Allen or Wim, stands Wimborne Minster surrounded by the pleasant old town that bears the full name of its only title to renown.
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