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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Well, we hadn't been out above a week when, whether 'twas worryin' at the light winds, or what 'twas I can't say, but the poor skipper was laid on his beam-ends with fever, and it took the chief-mate all his time to prevent his jumping overboard.
"That's about it," said Tilda bravely, albeit with a wry little twist of her mouth. "But what'll you do?" "Oh, I dunno . . . We'll get along some'ow eh, 'Dolph? Fact is, I got a job to do, an' no time to lose worryin'. You just read that." Tilda produced and handed her scrap of paper to Mrs. Damper, who took it, unfolded it, and perused the writing slowly. "Goin' there?" she inquired at length.
An' that ain't an onfair advantage, because it's his own fault he's worryin' about it. An' if it gives me a better chance with her, I'm goin' to grab it. An' I'll win, too. But, if I don't win, I don't reckon it'll kill me. Sometimes when I get to thinkin' about it I almost wish it would I'm that damned close to bein' yellow." Bat laughed. The idea of the Texan being yellow struck him as humorous.
Presently this ceased, so Scraggs and Gibney knew Dan Hicks was being hauled off at last. While they waited for further developments, Scraggs sucked at his old pipe and Mr. Gibney munched a French carrot. "If you hadn't canned McGuffey," the latter opined, "we might have been able to back off under our own power as soon as the tide is at flood. This delay is worryin' me."
"I've been worryin' about you every minute ever since I called, and you was too sick to see me," said Mrs. Groody, "but I've been so busy I couldn't get away. It takes an awful lot of work to get such a big house to rights, and the women cleanin', and the servants are so aggravating that I am just run off my legs lookin' after them.
I 'members plain as yesterd'y when he got kilt an' how all de flags hung at ha'f mas'. De Nawth nearly went wil' wid worryin' an' blamed ever'body else. Some of 'em even tried to blame de killin' on Marse Davis. I fit wid de Yankees, but I thought a mighty heap o' Marse Davis. He was quality. "I guess slav'ry was wrong, but I 'members us had some mighty good times.
"No, sor; she has no real frinds in Washington. I dunno where she can be, an' I'm sick o' worryin' over her." The warm-hearted Irishwoman's eyes filled with tears. "Julie was excitable like and quicktempered, but she niver did wrong, an' don't let yourselves be thinkin' ut." "There, there." The coroner laid a kindly hand on her arm. "We won't keep you any longer, Mrs. O'Leary.
"Yes, here you c'n see the markin' on the lid they threw away when they opened this one 'Professor Hackett, In care of John Stormways, Stanhope, all as plain as anything. And to think how after all my worryin' the old boxes have bobbed up here. Don't it beat the Dutch how things turn out?"
Wallie opened the oven door. "They're browning beautifully!" he reported. "Chickens?" Wallie shook his head: "I shan't tell you until you've passed upon them." "If you've got enough of whatever it is that's all that's worryin' me," declared Pinkey, hungrily.
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