I guess he see my feelin's were hurt, 'cause, just afore he left, he held out his hand and said I mustn't mind his talk; he'd been knocked on his beam ends, he said, and wan't really responsible." "Wouldn't he say what had knocked him ?" "No, couldn't get nothin' out of him.

And when he quit he went off toward home, slappin' his fists together and actin' as if he didn't see the road across his bows.

Now, you know how cool and easy goin' Whit generally is.

I swan to man, Ase! he made me so sorry for him I didn't know what to do." "Ain't you been up to see him sence ?" "No, Ketury was sot on havin' the barn cleaned, and she stood over me with a rope's end, as you might say.

I couldn't get away a minute, though I made up more'n a dozen errands at Simmons's and the like of that.