[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link book
The Attache

CHAPTER XII
34/36

So keep your mouth shut, my old coon, or your teeth might get sun-burnt.

You think you are angry with me; but you aint; you are angry with yourself.

You know you have showd yourself a proper fool for to come, for to go, for to talk to a man that has seed so much of the world as I have, bout "_refreshin' time_," and "_outpourin' of spirit_," and "_makin' profession_" and what not; and you know you showd yourself an everlastin' rogue, a meditatin' of cheatin' that Frenchman all summer.

It's biter bit, and I don't pity you one mossel; it sarves you right.

But look at the grave-digger; he looks to me as if he was a diggin' of his own grave in rael right down airnest.' "The captain havin' his boat histed, and thinkin' the hoss would swim ashore of hisself, kept right straight on; and the hoss swam this way, and that way, and every way but the right road, jist as the eddies took him.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books