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Says I: 'You can give it to Debby, if you want to, but don't lay a copper on that Blueworthy fraud. Then I told him the truth about Ase. He couldn't hardly believe it, but I finally convinced him, and he made out the check to Debby. I took it down to her myself just after dinner. Ase was there, and his eyes pretty nigh popped out of his head.
"Probably not, Ase; I presume likely not. But you take a day off some time and see if you can remember that Heman EVER stepped right out and said things. Blame it! that's just it. As for WHY he riles me up and makes me stubborn as a balky mule, I don't know exactly. All I'm sure is that he does. Maybe it's 'cause I don't like the way he wears his whiskers.
When the vote for school committee's all in we'll see who does the grinnin'. But I can't understand Hello! there's Tidditt. Asaph! Ase! S-s-t-t! Come here a minute." Mr. Tidditt, trembling with excitement, and shaking hands effusively with everyone he met, pushed his way up the aisle and bent over his friend. "Say, Ase," whispered Josiah, "where's Whit? Why ain't he on hand?
"The next morning, Jack was out with a bridle in his hand, going to catch the filly. As soon as he got into the domain, sure enough, there she was in the middle of a green field, grazing quite at her ase. When Jack saw this he went over towards her, houlding out his hat as if it was full of oats; but he kept the hand that had the bridle in it behind his back, for fraid she'd see it and make off.
What ails you? "'Faix, and he's settled too, I'm thinking. "'Take that, with what you got before, and it'll ase you, maybe. "'Lay on him, your sowls to pirdition lay on him, hot and heavy give it to him! He sthruck me and me down wid my broken arm! "'Foul, ye thieves of the world!
"She told the squire a long rigamarole about what a martyr Ase was, and how her dad was going to do some thing for him, but that she was going to give him his home back again with her own money, money her father had given her to buy a ring with, she said, though that ain't reasonable, of course nobody'd pay that much for a ring.
That young woman shan't risk her job nor her reputation on account of me nor of Bos'n, either. I'll see to that. And see here," he added fiercely, "I can't stop women's tongues, even when they're as bad as some of the tongues in this town, BUT if you hear a MAN say one word against Phoebe Dawes, only one word, you tell me his name. You hear, Ase? You tell me his name. Now run along, will you?
I see a pirate in every corner, grittin' his teeth. Writin' another of that kind, are you?" "No," I said; "this one is quite different. You will have no trouble in sleeping over this one, Ase." "That's a comfort. Got a little Bayport in it? Seems to me you ought to put a little Bayport in, for a change." I smiled. "There is a little in this," I answered.
How'd you get here?" "Walked," cackled Bailey. "Frogged it all the way. Soon's Mrs. Peabody wired you was goin' to ride, me and Ase started to meet you. Wan't you surprised?" "We wanted to be the fust to say howdy, old man," explained Asaph. "Wanted to welcome you back, you know." The captain was immensely pleased. "Well, I'm glad I've got so much popularity, anyhow," he said.
It's your own fault if anybody knows that you didn't leave of your own accord. I shan't tell, and I'll see that Tidditt doesn't. Now trot! Ase and I'll get supper ourselves." It was evident that the ex-housekeeper had much more which she would have liked to say. But there was that in her late employer's manner which caused her to forbear.
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