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"They 're arrangin' supply depots, anyhow; six companies of infantry are on Monument Creek, and five troops of cavalry on the North Canadian a'ready. Wagon trains have been haulin' supplies. There 's some stiff work ahead when the snow flies, or I miss my guess." Hamlin sat silent, thinking, and the scout smoked quietly, occasionally glancing toward his companion.
There's a hundred burnt a'ready, and the rest treadin' each other's lives out while we stand talkin', to get 'pon the roof and pitch theirselves over!" Now the engine-driver's wife was going to the play that night, and he knew it. She had met him at the station, and told him so, at midday.
Davids refused him. She sighed, but she refused him. "I've seen trouble enough a'ready, without my rushing into more with my eyes wide open," sighed she. "Trouble? Why, that is just what I was meaning to save you!" exclaimed the bewildered widower. "Pump right in the house, and stove e'enamost new. And Lyddy never knew what it was to want for a spoonful of sugar or a pound of flour.
Robert stared in horror. A boy like that asking for whisky! and in his grandmother's house, too! 'Shargar, he said solemnly, 'there's no a drap o' whusky i' this hoose. It's awfu' to hear ye mention sic a thing. My grannie wad smell the verra name o' 't a mile awa'. I doobt that's her fit upo' the stair a'ready.
"Why, the Chase is like a fair a'ready," said Mrs. Poyser, as she got down from the cart, and saw the groups scattered under the great oaks, and the boys running about in the hot sunshine to survey the tall poles surmounted by the fluttering garments that were to be the prize of the successful climbers. "I should ha' thought there wasna so many people i' the two parishes. Mercy on us!
But Herbert was in no mind to follow her advice; a glance over his shoulder showed that Florence was taking another unfair advantage of him. "You wait!" he shouted. "You stand still till I get back there! You got half a mile start a'ready! You wait till we can start even!"
Mary Fuller began to sob. She had for the moment forgotten the old man's presence. "What is this?" cried uncle Nathan, laying one hand over her head, and patting her cheeks with his broad palm, "homesick a'ready?" "No, no," sobbed Mary, "I, I was only thinking how good you all are to me, how very, very happy I ought to feel." "And can't. Is that it?"
"I'm settin' some tukkey-eggs now under de yaller hen," said Matt, with a slyly exultant grin. "She's a good mother, the yaller hen; an' de way dem fruit-trees is gwine ter be loaded is a sight. Aunt Mary Field, she's tradin' with me a'ready agin fruit puttin'-up time." Rupert got up from his chair. He caught old Matt's dusky, yellow-palmed paw in his hand and shook it hard.
"If they're strangers to us? Och, no. We knowed them this long time a'ready. Us we're well acquainted. But to be sure they don't live with us, so we say strangers is comin'. You don't talk like us; ain't?" "N not exactly." Getz smiled feebly. "I suppose I do," Miss Margaret sympathetically replied. Mr. Getz now came into the room, and Miss Margaret rose to greet him.
"Better late than never!" said the Colonel, "let me heft them spoons." Mrs. Sprowle came down into her chair again as if all her bones had been bewitched out of her. "I'm pretty nigh beat out a'ready," said she, "before any of the folks has come." They sat silent awhile, waiting for the first arrival. How nervous they got! and how their senses were sharpened!
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