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Updated: June 14, 2025
They come an' asked me one Saturday night to entertain the minister, that time we was having candidates" "I guess we'd better step along faster," said Mrs. Flagg suddenly. "Why, Miss Pickett, there's the stage comin' now! It's dreadful prompt, seems to me. Quick! there's folks awaitin', an' I sha'n't get to Baxter in no state to visit Mis' Cap'n Timms if I have to ride all the way there backward!"
"Oh!" she gasped, "what are they going to do with it?" "Place it on the stage, awaitin’ yo’ ohdahs." And to her expression of infinite relief—"Yo’ didn’t think any disrepec’ would be shown the baggage of a lady honorin’ this hyeh metropolis with her presence?" She thanked the knights of the lariat the more warmly for her unjust suspicions.
There they are, both of 'em, squattin' in the middle of the wreck, just as cool as you please, awaitin' for us to call in and take 'em off. Hope it don't sink before we c'n get back. If either one can't swim they'd go down like a stone. Now you're around, Frank; and we're heading straight for the place. Hurrah! Hold hard there and we'll lend you a helpin' hand!"
To my wonder I don't turn no flip-flap, but performs like a draw-shot in billiards. I plants my moccasins on the springboard; an' then instead of goin' on an' over a cayouse who's standin' thar awaitin' sech events, I shoots back'ard about fifteen foot an' lands in a ondistinguishable heap. An' as I strikes a plank it smashes a brace of my ribs. "'For a second I'm blurred in my intellects.
An' she rustled up her old sombrero an' leggin's just as though she had never set a hoof off the range. Still, the' was somethin' about her you couldn't quite put your finger on; but which you knew in your heart was there all the time, awaitin' till she made up her mind to call it out; like a handful o' regulars givin' dignity to a scrawny two by twice fort in the Injun country.
And so I set here awaitin' your answer." At this moment the shutters of the front window, which had been closed, were opened, and Asaph put in his head. "Look here, Thomas Rooper," he said, "these shoes is pegged. I didn't bargain for no pegged shoes; I wanted 'em sewed; everything was to be first-class." Mr.
While he was speaking Mr Crossley rang the bell and politely opened the dining-room door, so that our hero found himself in the street before he had quite recovered from his astonishment. "Please, sir," said Mrs Bland to her master after Charlie was gone, "Cap'en Stride is awaitin' in the library." "Send him here," said Crossley, once more consulting his watch.
And I'll pay a week down if you like, mister and we'll get our bits of sticks in to-day." "Well," said the landlord, taking a key from a nail on the wall, "let's go down and have a look at the 'ouse. Where's the kid?" "'E's there awaitin' for me," said Beale; "couldn't get 'im away."
"Well, sor," he declared, "I had me hyphen wit' me whin I shipped; as late as yestherd'y afthernoon 'twas in good worrkin' ordher; but what wit' the exertion av chasin' our Gerrman crew round the decks, faith I've lost me hyphen, an' I'm thinkin' the skipper's lost his too. That's him forninst ye. For the prisent he's in dhrydock awaitin' repairs, which leaves me in command av the ship.
"Gosh all hemlock!" broke out Perk, "what d'ye think o' that jest awaitin' round for us to come along what a 'commodatin' little pet he is!" Jack could see the suggestive bulk of the coiled snake lying on the path, with scant room on either side for them to pass oozy depths of the swamp on one side and an angry rattler on the other.
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