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"What do you think your mother will say?" "Gosh! I know! That's why I wanted to talk to you first. If I'm goin', I want to know it so I can say to her that I am goin' and not that I aim to go." "Well, you will have to decide that." "Well, I'm goin' to before ma comes. Dog-gone it! You know how it is tryin' to explain things to a woman. Wimmin don't understand them kind of things."
'D'ye be hearin' iv th' little lady from off the ship? continued Phil, as if following a natural sequence. 'Yes, answered Jim, his cheeks warming a little. 'She is with Mrs. Macdougal at Boobyalla, just beyond Jim Crow, and is well and cheerful. 'Good agin! Ryan sighed heavily as he resumed his swag. 'It's th' on'y thing I'm lamentin' here, th' mighty scarcity iv fine wimmin, he said.
"That's nat'ral, seein' as ye're lone in life without 'usband or childer," she said "There's a many wimmin as 'ud grow fond of an Aunt Sally on a pea-stick if they'd nothin' else to set their 'arts on. An' as the old chap was yer father's friend, there's bin a bit o' feelin' like in lookin' arter 'im. But I wouldn't take 'im on my back as a burgin, Mis' Deane, if I were you.
"Thet's proof enough to me he ain't right." "Wimmin," says Watty, as the result of a period of philosophical consideration, "is all crazy about clothes. When a feller's got good clothes you can't make them see no harm into him, no matter what he is. I pressed some of Duncan's last Satiddy. I never see clothes such goods and linin's.
"Sink me," he growled, "I thought it couldn't be gun-runnin' when there was wimmin mixed up in it. Didn't I say so, Tagg?" "You did," agreed Tagg again. "Gun-running!" repeated von Kerber, "You mean carrying contraband arms, yes? What put that into your head?" "I've not bin cap'n of a ship nigh on fifteen years without larnin' the importance of knowin' wot she's loaded with," said Stump.
Now if she'd er tuk thim old blue pearmain trees, I wouldn't have said a word. But, 'Oh no! sez she, 'I must have all pink uns; an' it was jest the pink uns that was our best trees; that's jest as much sinse as ye wimmin 's got."
Say, ther' ain't nothin' in the world so beautiful as you, Aim-sa, an' that's a fac'. I ain't never seen nothin' o' wimmin before, 'cep' my mother, but I guess now I've got you I can't do wi'out you, you're that soft an' pictur'-like. Ye've jest got to say right here that you're my squaw, an' everything I've got is yours, on'y they things I leave behind to Nick."
"I didn't notice anything," said a bystander; "he passed the time o' day civil enough to me." "Oh, he's allus polite enough to strangers and wimmin folk even when he is that way; it's only his old chums, or them ez like to be thought so, that he's peppery with.
He reached for the small onyx clock, placing it upright on the mantel, and shrugged his shoulders loosely. "Gad!" he said, "you wimmin! Crazy as loons, all of you and your kind. Come, come, get down to brass tacks, girl. I'm tired and gotta get home." "Home, Max?" "Yes, home!" "Max, ain't ain't this home no more, ain't it?"
My marster sho' set a fine table an' fed his people de highes'. De hongriest I ever been was at de Siege o' Vicksburg. Dat was a time I'd lak to forgit. De folks et up all de cats an' dogs an' den went to devourin' de mules an' hosses. Even de wimmin an' little chillun was a-starvin'. Dey stummicks was stickin' to dey backbones.
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