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Why, man, say, when I think of what a time we all are going to have, you, and me, and Mac, and Tom Osby, and Dan Anderson, with all them things of our'n, and all these here things on the side champagne and all that, it looks like this world ain't run on the square, don't it?" I assured Curly that this had long been one of my own conclusions.
"Yes," said Aunt Debby, inhospitably disregarding the exhaustion of the provender, and speaking a little more quickly than her wont, "but which side whipt?" "Our'n, in course," said Fortner, with nettled surprise at the question. "Our'n, in course. Old Zollicoffer got ez bad a licken ez ever Gineral Zach Taylor gi'n the Mexicans." "Rayally?" she said.
Bo made one sullen demand for it. "Funny about them fast finishes of yours!" said Daddy scornfully. "Say! the ball's our'n. The winnin' team gits the ball. Go home an' look up the rules of the game!" Bo slouched off the field to a shrill hooting and tin canning. "Fellers, what was the score?" asked Daddy. Nobody knew the exact number of runs made by Madden's Hill.
"Have you?" I asked. "No, sir, I ain't. Gosh a'mighty! Say! what have ye done with that boy of our'n?" "What have you done to our house?" I asked again. "Built on an addition." "That's what I've done to your boy," I answered. "Thunder an' lightnin'! How you've raised the roof!" he exclaimed as he grabbed my satchel. "Dressed like a statesman an' bigger'n a bullmoose.
"Them's our fellers, Bose," whispered Dan, who was highly excited. "They've got bags slung over their shoulders, an' they think they're goin' to play smash stealin' them birds of our'n; but me and you will see how many they'll get, won't we?"
"Well she was a connexion of our'n, Miss T , and I always thought there was something in it. Narves won't account for everything." "Well, I never trusted her a bit more for that," said Miss Sophonisba.
Me an' Sis an' Puss hain't had many weddin's 'mongst us, an' we're thes a-gwine to try an' put the bes' foot foremos'. Oh no, Cap! You fetch your frien's an' we'll fetch our'n, an' ef the house hain't roomy enough, bless you, the woods is."
"'Twenty-two cents, said Aaron. 'An' what good does it do me? Nothin' 't all. What can I buy with it, here on this here island? Nothin'. Here I am an' here we all be scorched an' burnt by the sun, and bit by these here scorpions, an' other varmints, an' dressed in rags an' tatters, an' all the while, all that loot of our'n lyin' there idle in the ground.
"I guess you will find the woods pretty lonesome," said our driver, whose thoughts had been evidently employed on the same subject as our own. "We were once in the woods, but emigration has stepped ahead of us, and made our'n a cleared part of the country. When I was a boy, all this country, for thirty miles on every side of us, was bush land.
And we to have our'n in four years! But I knew it would come some time, sure as was a God in heaven. Hadn't we been prayin' and prayin', an' beseechin', an' how could de Lord stan' de prayers of such 'pressed, trodden people as we? Bress de Lord, O my soul, an' all dat is in me!" Thousands like Amy sang their songs of deliverance.
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