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But you're right on one thing, an' don't fergit I told ye so: thet woman at Bigbee's ain't on the square." "How do you know?" asked Mary Louise, delighted to be taken into Bub's confidence being a girl. "The critter's too slick," he explained, raising one bare foot to the cushion beside him and picking a sliver out of his toe. "Her eyes ain't got their shutters raised.
"Let him spook about and eaves-drop," said Fabens, "I owe him nothing, but pity for his disposition, and I would say all I have said, and more, to his face. There is one comfort! God has power to give him a better heart, and I hope some day he will." "I dun know about that," said Colwell. "Mebby he can, but it will take more brimstun than the critter's worth to cleanse his rotten sperit."
I'm stiddy enough on my own pins, but defend me from tryin' to git about on another critter's. And how's all with you, Bob? and why ain't you aboard the Huntress?" Bob in the fewest possible words related the mishap which had befallen the boat, and asked if he might take Missy out to see her. "To be sure! to be sure!" said Captain January. "That'll be a nice trip for ye, Honeysuckle.
He swore he'd never come back again while Lobelia 'Ankins was there. "'That's it, says he, 'larf at a feller critter's sufferings. I honly wish she'd try to kiss you once, that's all! "Well, I couldn't make him budge, so I decided to go back and get the lay of the land.
I took in a cat for company 'tother day, but the critter's run away. To see it look at the beans in its saucer and then at me was pitiful; I felt like handin' myself over to the Cruelty to Animals' folks." "Is she neat?" inquired Mr. Tidditt. "I don't know. I guess so on the installment plan. It takes her a week to scrub up the kitchen, and then one end of it is so dirty she has to begin again.
Tom replied, "I'd like to catch you at it, my dear boy I'd wax the little hide off of you. But come, let us be settling. Is it a lie now, Jem; speak out is it a lie, consarn you? for if it be, you'd best jest say 't out now, and save your bones to-morrow. Well, boys, the critter's sulky, so most like it is true and I guess we'll be arter him.
Kiddie looked down at the tight shut jaws of the gin. "Thar's a tuft of black fur in the teeth of the trap," he pointed out. "An' look at them claw marks! Guess that critter's some bigger'n a lynx. May's well stay another night in this camp an' try ter git the critter, eh?" "Dunno 'bout that," Rube demurred. "Might be a whole fam'ly o' rattlers lyin' around. 'Tain't just healthy."
Don't give us no more trouble. Jes' quit, an' we'll hang yeh neat and handy, an' be done with it." "Steady, all!" Lawson, the sailorman, bawled. "Jam his head into the bean pot and batten down." "But my fingah, suh," Mr. Taylor protested. "Leggo with y'r finger, then! Always in the way!" "But I can't, Mistah Lawson. It's in the critter's gullet, and nigh chewed off as 't is."
"Why, yer see the boy had been a-proddin' the critter with a sharp stick; and, arter he got through, he was a-standin' by the wagon, and the bar made a jump and ketched him right by his trousers-leg. This kind er scart the feller, and he made a leap, and left the biggest part of his breeches in the critter's mouth. I called him, and he came towards me, looking decidedly guilty.
Well, the warmth of the eggs felt good to the poor critter's naked belly, and kinder kept the itchin of the nettles down, and he was glad to bide where he was, and whenever he was tired and got off his skin felt so cold, he'd run right back and squat down agin, and when his feathers began to grow, and he got obstropolous, he got another ticklin with the nettles, that made him return double quick to his location.
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