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'E said there was such a sight o' wobblin' water that 'e thort it 'ud wobble off altogether an' wash away all the land and 'im with it. Ay, ay! 'e was main scared with 'is cheap 'scursion!" "I've never seen the sea," said Innocent then, in a low clear tone "but I've read about it and I think I know what it is like.
"Nell," she replied irrelevantly with a quick, uncertain glance around, "I'm afraid. Do you know what it is to be afraid?" "I've been scart," the woman answered curtly. "I've a queer, sinkin' feeling here," she laid her hand at the pit of her stomach, "and my back feels weak all gone. My knees take spells of wobblin' when I walk. I'm afraid in the dark. I'm afraid in the light.
"'My Christian friend and brother, says I, 'before we converse upon the root of all evil, let me put you on to the fact that my name is E. G. W. Scraggs. "'Ah! says he, backin' up, 'Sclaggsee! "'Sclaggsee! I hollers, and we near met on the spot. 'Don't you say that agin! "'Ah! says he. "I noticed his guns was wobblin'. "'Ah! says I. 'You're darned right.
Mebby I hadn't ort to tell it at all. Mebby it hain't quite orthodox in me to feel so. But it is truthful, anyway. And sometimes I get to kinder wobblin' round inside of my mind, and a wonderin' which is the best, to be orthodox, or truthful, and I sort o' settle down to thinkin' I will tell the truth anyway. Josiah, I think, likes Tirzah Ann the best. But I studied deep, and mused.
"Well," sez I, "mebby there is more or less internal heart bleedin' goin' on in the wimmen's hearts that have to divide a man's love and care a dozen times." Sez I, "A hull man's hull affections are onstiddy and wobblin' and oncertain enough without dividin' it up so many times." Them wimmen wuz touched.
And Ardelia liked him, that wuz plain to see; at fust as I watched and see him totter, I thought she wuz a sort o' wobblin' too, and when he fell deep, deep in love, I looked to see her a follerin' on. But Ardelia, as soft as she wuz, had an element of strength. She wuz ambitious.
Once she compared single life to a lonely goose travellin' alone acrost the country, 'cross lots, lonesome and despairin', travellin' along over a thorny way, and desolate, weighed down by melancholy and gloomy forebodin's, and takin' a occasional rest by standin' up on one cold foot and puttin' its weery head under its wing, with one round eye lookin' out for dangers that menaced it, and lookin', also, perhaps, for a possible mate, for the comin' gander restless, wobblin', oneasy, miserable.
I had to lean hard, or I should have been perfectly wobblin' and broke up. And then to see Jefferson's writin', and Hamilton's, and Benjamin Franklin's he who also discovered a New World, the mystic World that we draw on with such a stiddy and increasin' demand for supplies of light, and heat, and motion, and everything
He asked dazedly of Johnny Nelson. "Ain't it funny!" he yelled sarcastically as he beheld Johnny holding his sides with laughter. "Ain't it funny!" he repeated belligerently. "Of course that four-laigged, knock-kneed, wobblin' son-of-a-Piute had to cut me out. They wasn't nobody in sight but Billy! Why didn't yu say he was comin'? Think I can see four ways to once?
But the boy, who was now close at hand, still went on. 'Hush! scush! scurry! There you go in a hurry! Gobble! gobble! goblin! There you go a wobblin'; Hobble, hobble, hobblin' Cobble! cobble! cobblin'! Hob-bob-goblin! Huuuuuh! 'There! said the boy, as he stood still opposite them. 'There! that'll do for them. They can't bear singing, and they can't stand that song.
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