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Updated: June 14, 2025
"You'll want another man," he said to Jeff, "onless ye can carry double. Ez HE," indicating the stranger, "ez no sort o' use, he'd better stay here and 'tend bar, while you and me fetch the wimmen off. 'Specially ez I reckon we've got to do some tall wadin' by this time to reach 'em." The meek man sat down helplessly in a chair indicated by Bill, who at once strode after Jeff.
Them Chihuahua Mexicans, you savvy. After they'd wore out their shoes and froze their marrow-bones wadin' they got tired and shoved 'em in, regardless. Well, if this warm weather holds we'll be able to git our rodér good and started before the sheep come in. That's one reason why I never was able to do much with these sheepmen," he added.
"Let's go out past Miss Viny's," suggested Jake; "there's a bully woods out there." "Aw, no! Let's go to Tick Creek an' go in wadin'." Mrs. Wiggs, seated high above the party and slapping the reins on Cuba's back, allowed the lively debate to continue until trouble threatened, then she interfered: "I think it would be nice to go over to the cemetery.
Her idea of cleanliness indoors was about the same as that of a smart skipper of an old-time clipper ship. "If that woman ain't holystonin' the deck ev'ry day she thinks we're wadin' in dirt, boot-laig high," growled Cap'n Amazon. "Cleanliness is next to godliness!" quoted Louise, who was in the store at the moment. "Land sakes!" ejaculated the captain.
"Look here, boys; I ain' got time to fool with you chillern," said the old man. "Ain't you hear your ma tell me she 'pend on me to bury that silver what yo' gran'ma and gran'pa used to eat off o' an' don' wan' nobody to know nothin' 'bout it? An' y' all comin' here with guns, like you huntin' squ'rr'ls, an' now talkin' 'bout wadin' in the ditch!"
''Twud be Paradise if he was here, he says, whin, lo an' behold, who shud come acrost th' dimon'-studded beach, wadin' through th' bank-notes that 'd been dropped be th' good farmers iv Shekel Island, but Tom Reed. "Well, sir, to see th' affection that those two great men showed at th' encounther 'd dhraw tears fr'm th' eyes iv a hear-rt iv sthone.
"Hallo!" she screamed in answer to the hail from the boat, and then turning to them: "I choose neither of you!" "McTee," growled Harrigan, "I'm thinkin' we've both been fools." "Think what you will, I'll have her; and if you cross me again, I'll finish you, Harrigan." "McTee, ten of your like couldn't finish me. But look! There's the girl wadin' out to the boat.
Singular we don't believe your letters when you write, sayin', 'I just about make a live of it'? Singular we think the country's goin' to hell, we fellers, in a two dollar suit, wadin' around in the mud or sweatin' around in the hayfield, while you fellers lay around New York and smoke and wear good clothes and toady to millionaires?" Howard threw down the rake and folded his arms.
"Wa wadin'?" repeated Atkins faintly. "What's that you say?" "I said the boots were as wet as if you had been wading. Why?" "Wha what made you say a fool thing like that? How could I go wadin' on top of a lighthouse?" "I don't know. . . . There, there!" impatiently, "don't ask any more questions. I didn't say you had been wading, and I didn't suppose you really had. I was only joking.
"It's wadin' a puddle navigatin' this way," complained the Cap'n, his eyes on the penning shores of the reach; "and it makes me homesick when I think of my old four-sticker pilin' white water to her bowsprit's scroll and chewin' foam with her jumper-guys. Deep water, Hiram! Deep water, with a wind and four sticks, and I'd show ye!"
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