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"Mebbe in that outfit of he-men you're expectin' to hit the trail for to-morrow they'll wrop you up in cotton an' not let a hundred-an'-thirty-pound giant jump you." "I ain't askin' it of 'em," Bandy retorted. "I can look out for myself an' then some. As for this sprout who thinks he's so gosh-mighty, I'll jus' say one thing. Some o' these days I'll settle with him proper." He turned as he spoke.
He ain't no constable. Nobody ain't a constable here in Marsden. Ain't been none sence Isaac Brewster died, an' nobody would take his place. 'Less I'm one, myself, as Moses said." At which she laughed heartily, then hastily added: "But we must be gettin' home to oncet. I'll step up attic an' get a couple o' shawls to wrop 'round us, heads an' all.
The boy swung Felice into one of them easily. He tucked the soft fur about her vigorously. "Better wrop up good," he warned her solemnly, "S'cold." He was perfectly good-humored at the Major's sharp reprimand at the way he handled the luggage. The Major clambered in, the oxen started slowly.
"Moral," he said, beaming with self-satisfaction, "is handin' a lesson all wrop up in fancy words so's to set folks cussin' like mad they can't understand it, an' hatin' themselves when they're told its meanin'. Now, if I was goin' to show you what a blamed idjut you was without jest sayin' so " "Shut up!" cried Bill. And without waiting for a reply he read on, " with discretion.
"I didn't spec' to be libin' dis week, but I ain't got my quilt done yit, an' I can't go 'mong de angels wrop in a shroud wid one corner off." "Certainly not," answered Mrs Null. "Haven't you pieces enough to finish it?" "Oh, yaas, I got bits enough, but de trouble is to sew 'em up. I can't sew very fas' nowadays." "It's a pity for you to have to do it yourself," said Mrs Null.
Then she remarked: "My suz! you didn't look none too peart when I first called ye. If I'd had an opinion to give I should ha' give it that you was down in the mouth. Well, never mind. You're a funny child, but I guess you'll make some kind of woman if you live long enough. Hand me down that basket from the second pantry shelf, whilst I wrop that jell-roll in a napkin. Take notice of the basket.
We's settin' you free." "Sometimes dey takes a' tie a rope 'round you, and they starts ridin' off but dey dont go too fas' so you walks behind. Sometimes 'long comes another Yank on a horse an he arsk, 'Boy ain you tired? 'Yessir Boss. 'Well den you git up here behind me and ride some. Den he wrop de rope all 'round de saddle horn. Wrops and wrops, but leaves some slack.
"Robert Strong might wring all the money he could from these workmen, wrop himself in a jewelled robe and set up in a gold chair and look down on the bent forms of the poor, sweating and groaning and striking and starving below him. But he don't want to. He is down there right by the side of 'em. Capital and labor walking side by side some like the lion and the lamb.
Then we'll go and cut a couple of good young hazel rods in the copse." "Then you won't have broomsticks, David?" "Nay, sir, they'd be too heavy and too stiff. I know the sort good stout young hazels as won't break when you hit with 'em, but wrop well round." The hazels were cut and carried back to the garden, burdened with their twigs and greenery.
"Never you mind, Laurelly," he called cheerfully. "Wrop the baby up some fashion, and I'll hike out and get clothes for her, time I mend this cradle." "Ef that ain't just like Unc' Pros!" And the girlish mother laughed out suddenly. You saw the gypsy beauty of her face. "He ain't content with borryin' men's truck, but thinks he can turn in an' borry coats 'mongst the women.
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