I'll be back in a shake.

If anybody comes to the door while I'm gone don't you worry; let 'em go away again." He put on his hat and left the house, walking rapidly, his head down and his hands in his pockets.

At times he would pause in his walk, whistle, shake his head, and go on once more.

Josiah Dimick met him, and his answers to Josiah's questions were so vague and irrelevant that Captain Dimick was puzzled, and later expressed the opinion that "Whit's cookin' must be pretty bad; acted to me as if he had dyspepsy of the brain." Captain Cy stopped at Mr.Lumley's residence to leave an order for the delivery of the box.

Then he drifted into Simmons's and accosted Alpheus Smalley.
"Al," he said, "what's good for a cold ?" "Why ?" asked Mr.Smalley, in true Yankee fashion.