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'Sides, things might be wuss," he finished up, with a considerable emphasis. And so Tresler had to be content; ill at ease, chafing, but quite powerless.
'Hoots! what kin' o' gait 's that to speyk till a body? Whase feet was inside the shune? 'De'il a bit o' me kens, mem. 'Dinna sweir, whatever ye du. 'De'il but I will sweir, mem; an' gin ye anger me, I'll jist sweir awfu'. 'I'm sure I hae nae wuss to anger ye, man! Canna ye help a body to win at the boddom o' a thing ohn angert an' sworn?
With a melancholy shake of his head the old man complied, and the startled skipper turned to the mate, who was at the wheel, and expressed his firm intention of at once stopping such behaviour on his ship. "You can't do it," said the mate firmly. "Can't do it?" queried the skipper. "Not a bit of it," said the other. "They've all got it bad, an' the more you get at 'em the wuss they'll be.
"Please, sir, are you the Mr Auberly who was a'most skumfished with smoke at the Beverly Square fire t'other day, in tryin' to git hold o' yer sister?" Fred could not but smile as he admitted the fact. "Please, sir, I hope yer sister ain't the wuss of it, sir." "Not much, I hope; thank you for inquiring; but how come you to know about the fire, and to be interested in my sister?"
"Well, you are a good boy, Jim," said the old woman, glancing at a superannuated clock, which told of the moments in loud, almost absurd solemnity; "but if you don't stop talkin' and go on wi' your eatin', you'll lose the train." "True, mother. Time and tide, they say, wait for no man; but trains is wuss than time or tide, they won't even wait for a woman."
"How's Toot like his isolation?" concluded Dill, grunting as he lifted the jug down from the wagon. "It's made a wuss devil 'n ever out'n 'im," was the answer. "He don't do a blessed thing now but plot an' plan fer revenge. He's beginnin' to think that hotel gal's gone back on 'im an' tuk to likin' the feller he fit that day.
"Gillie, my lad," he said, looking earnestly at his satellite while they walked one afternoon along the Bayswater road in the direction of Kensington, "it's a bad business altogether." Gillie, not having the smallest idea what the Captain referred to, admitted that it was "wery bad indeed," but suggested that "it might be wuss."
I ain't say so to de Jedge, but I 'low when you see bug you can't see wid yo' eye, you best not seem um 'tall case he must be some kind o' spook, an' Gawd knows I ain't want to see no spook. Ef de bug ain't no spook, den he mus' be eenside yo' haid, 'stead o' outside um, an' to hab bug on de eenside o' yo' haid is de wuss kind o' bad luck.
"I didn't expect no sech accident when I let ye go into the swimmin' match." "Did you go under, Henry?" "Yes, but I soon got myself loose," was the reply. "I was almost scared stiff when you didn't come up, Dave. After this we'll have to be more careful than ever." "It was wuss nor thet wildcat, I reckon," came from Barringford. "I should say so," returned Henry promptly.
"Now, Marse Ishmael, if you don't keep ole marster quiet, 'deed I gwine shut up my mouf, 'cause he's wuss on anybody's narves dan an elected battery," she said. "Go on, Katie, go on!" commanded Ishmael, as he stood by Judge Merlin's chair and kept his arm over the old man's shoulders. "Well, den, he keep still. 'Deed I 'fraid he tears me up nex' time he jump at me." "Have no uneasiness, Katie.
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