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A man and woman, dretful shabby lookin', wuz a standin' by the door of the hut, and the man had a shovel in his hand, and had been a loadin' sand into a awful big wheelbarrow that wuz a standin' by seemin'ly ready to carry it acrost the fields, to where some man wuz a mixin' some motar, to lay the foundations of a barn.
How do you come to be mixin' it up so conspicuous?" "I'm sorry," says he. "I suppose I made an awful ass of myself. But even if she is a public dancer, that snipe shouldn't have insulted her. Of course I'd found out long before that Miss Toots was no longer anything to me; but " "Then that was the famous Maggie, was it?" I breaks in. "The one that lured you up from Dixie?"
"I ain' mix wid no fiel' han's," grunted Cupid, with a social pride befitting the Major. "Dar ain' no use er my mixin' en I ain' mix. Dey stay in dere place en I stay in my place en dere place hit's de quarters, en my place hit's de dinin' 'oom." "But Aunt Rhody how's she?" inquired Betty, pleasantly, "and Big Abel? He didn't go back to college, did he?"
Mary, lass, ye've been mixin' the victuals. Why, what have we here?" "Moose nose," replied the girl with a look of pleasure. "I do b'lieve so it is! Why, where got ye it? I han't killed a moose for three weeks an' more." "Me kill him meself," said Mary. "You!" "Ay, me! with me own gun, too!" "Capital!" cried Dick, tossing back his heavy locks, and gazing at the child with proud delight.
Why didn't Davison send him to the hospital? The doc's allus mixin' us up with waifs an' strays. He's got more cheek than a houn' pup " "Now, Jabez!" cried the little old lady, who had been bending over the stove. "Don't ye make yourself out wuss nor you be. That poor boy ain't doin' no harm to the bed." "Makin' you more work, Alviry."
"I told the President about it, Uncle Jethro; I told him how sick Cousin Eph had been, and that you were going to give him the postmastership because he couldn't work any more with his hands." The training of a lifetime had schooled Jethro not to betray surprise. "K-kind of mixin' up in politics, hain't you, Cynthy? P-President say he'd give you the postmastership, Eph?" he asked.
She ain't go'n' a' stan' no nonsense lahk that, seh; she ain't go'n a' have no lawyeh mixin' up in huh private mattehs. Ah lahk t' see one try it yes, seh." He gazed vacantly into the distance, then laughed aloud as he beheld the discomfiture of the "lawyeh" in this suppositious proceeding. "And you even let your wife go? that must have been hard." "Well, seh, not to say mah wife.
"No, you mustn't leave the sheep alone at night it's bad enough to do it in the day. What was the trouble between him and Swan who started it?" "Some of Swan's sheep got over with ours I don't know how it happened, or whose fault it was. I'd been skirmishin' around a little, gettin' the lay of the country mapped out in my mind. Swan and Mackenzie were mixin' it up when I got there."
"So," he finished vigorously, "I an' my men hit the trail fer the ranch and was told by the women that you was out here. And here we are, and you might just as well come along peaceable as to make a fuss " "That thar is shore enough outa YOU, Hank Miller!" Applehead exploded again. "I calc'late you kin count ME in, when you go mixin' up with Luck, here.
I don't b'lieve in mixin' folks up that way. Preach to 'em if you like, but let 'em keep their distance, I say." Margaret laughed and went off to pick up her things. Rosa stood smiling and talking to Jed until she saw Margaret and Mrs. Tanner go off together, the Indians riding slowly along behind.
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