Then Counahan tuk the hog-yoke an' thrembled over it for a whoile, an' made out, betwix' that an' the chart an' the singin' in his head, that they was to the south'ard o' Sable Island, gettin' along glorious, but speakin' nothin'.
"They hauled ut up, bein' just about in that state when ut seemed right an' reasonable, and sat down on the deck countin' the knots, an' gettin' her snarled up hijjus.
Baynes was gettin' away from the lion as fast as he could, leavin' the girl to take care of herself, when I got a lucky shot into the beast's shoulder that fixed him."
"If I was you," said Hanson, "I wouldn't let any man keep me from gettin' the girl I want.
Sure, when we sing together I'm absorbin' religion an'
gettin' pretty close up to God.
"And you--you ain't never fed 'm after them first days of
gettin' acquainted.
For I'm gettin' so full o' money, I must hev a wife to spend it for me.
Lors!" added Bob, laying down his pack on the gravel, "it's a thousand pities such a lady as you shouldn't deal with a packman, i' stead o' goin' into these newfangled shops, where there's half-a-dozen fine gents wi' their chins propped up wi' a stiff stock, a-looking like bottles wi' ornamental stoppers, an' all got to get their dinner out of a bit o' calico; it stan's to reason you must pay three times the price you pay a packman, as is the nat'ral way o' gettin' goods,--an' pays no rent, an' isn't forced to throttle himself till the lies are squeezed out on him, whether he will or no.
'spectable folks enough in a kinder plain way; but, as to
gettin' up anything in style, they don't begin to have a notion on 't.
But what do you do
gettin' out o' the highroad?" he added, with a tone of gruff reproof.
Just as 'twas
gettin' serious, and the old boy and the mob was going to pull 'em off the coach, one little fellow jumps up and says, 'Here--I'll stay.
What's the matter with you an' me
gettin' married?"
"I heard what you said about
gettin' the gold," went on the officer.
"Now you've had all you can stan' to-night, poor little soul, without
gettin' a fit o' sickness; an' Mirandy'll be sore an' cross an' in no condition for argyment; so my plan is jest this: to drive you over to the brick house in my top buggy; to have you set back in the corner, an' I git out an' go to the side door; an' when I git your aunt Mirandy 'n' aunt Jane out int' the shed to plan for a load o' wood I'm goin' to have hauled there this week, you'll slip out o' the buggy and go upstairs to bed.
Why, you was
gettin' quite a leadin' man in this here crew.