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"I'm sorry you don't like it," said Phillis. "Like it," said Bacchus, contemptuously, "why, if it twasn't for the trouble of going to my chist, I'd wear one of my old ones. Cuss de ruffles, I wish you'd cut 'em off." Bacchus went in, and in due time made his appearance in full dress. He wore the blue coat and buff vest, and a pair of white pantaloons, made after the old style.
The doctor knows how to hand a book as well as the next man." The doctor's wife drew her darning basket from the side table and turned its contents into her lap. "'Twasn't that," she said; "I'd never have thought of that, I guess. I hit it because I didn't know if 'twas a proper book for Doc. It's got a kind of a queer name." Eliph' turned the book over in his hand.
"Well, to say the truth, we hadn't told father of the engagement at that time; in fact, 'twasn't settled." "Ah! the business was done Sunday. Yes, yes, Sunday's the courting day. Heu-heu!" "No, 'twasn't done Sunday in particular." "After school-hours this week? Well, a very good time, a very proper good time." "O no, 'twasn't done then." "Coming along the road to-day then, I suppose?"
"A parachute's somethin' that comes down, ain't it," suggested Zoeth, remembering the balloon ascension he had seen at the county fair. "Humph! So 'tis. Seems as if 'twasn't parachute she said. 'Twas 'twas " "Parasol?" suggested Isaiah, who was an interested listener. "No, no; nor paralysis neither. Paragon, that's what 'twas. Teacher said that child was a paragon." "What's a paragon?" asked Mr.
"But I can tell you how she thravelled a good step of the way home," Ody now continued, "for she tould me herself. The Tinkers gave her a lift in their ould cart. Somewheres beyant Rosbride she met wid them; glory be to goodness 'twasn't any nearer here they were, the ould thieves of sin. Howane'er, Mrs. M'Gurk belike 'ud be wishful to see thim comin' along.
Here she sternly regarded each bedaubed, but otherwise nude, little figure, with so fierce an expression upon her usually pleasant face that the young miscreants winced, and Ned cried out: "Quit a-talking eyes at me that way, Aunt Sally Benton! I don't like it." "Oh! you don't, eh? Well, what'd you disgrace yourselves this way for, if 'twasn't to make folks stare? Where's your clothes?"
An' every step he took that little boy got heavier, so Ferus nearly tumbled down an' they liked to both got drownded. An' when they got across the river Ferus said, 'Well, you ARE the heaviest small fry I ever carried, an' he turned around to look at him, an' 'twasn't no little boy at all 'twas a big man 'twas Christ.
"And did they get in?" exclaimed Robert Day's aunt. "I don't like to think about it yet," remarked the toll-woman, cooling her tea and intent on enjoying her own story. "'Twasn't so very long ago, either. First comes word from this direction that a toll-gate keeper and his wife was tied and robbed at the dead o' night.
"Well, yes, dear; she did begin jest so, and I gave her everything I could think of; and we had doctors for her far and near; but 'twasn't to be, that's all we could say; she was called, and her time was come." "Well, now, Aunt Roxy," said Mara, "at any rate, it's a relief to speak out to some one.
He hated to say no; in fact, he said it so seldom that he scarcely knew how. So he temporized. "Well, Serena," he began, "I I'd like to have you; you know that. If 'twasn't for the cost I wouldn't hesitate a minute." "But we have that three thousand dollars." "Well, we ain't got all of it. Or we shan't have it long.
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