Here's my puss, my rings, my watch, and all I have got; but oh, help me! for the love of God, help me, or my flint is fixed for good and all.' "With that, the man turned round, and took one glance at her, as if he kinder relented, and then, all at once, wheeled back again, as amazed as if he was jist born, gave an awful yell, and started off as fast as he could clip, though that warn't very tall runnin' nother, considerin' the ground.

But she warn't to be shook off that way.

She held fast to his cloak, like a burr to a sheep's tail, and raced arter him, screamin' and screechin' like mad; and the more she cried, the louder he yelled, till the mountains all echoed it and re-echoed it, so that you would have thought a thousand devils had broke loose, a'most.
"Such a gettin' up stairs you never did see.
"Well, they kept up this tantrum for the space of two or three hundred yards, when they came to a small, low, dismal-lookin' house, when the man gave the door a kick, that sent the latch a flyin' off to the t'other eend of the room, and fell right in on the floor, on his face, as flat as a flounder, a groanin' and a moanin' like any thing, and lookin' as mean as a critter that was sent for, and couldn't come, and as obstinate as a pine stump.
"'What ails you ?' sais she, 'to act like Old Scratch that way?
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, to behave so to a woman.

What on airth is there about me to frighten you so, you great onmannerly, onmarciful, coward, you.

Come, scratch up, this minute.' "Well, the more she talked, the more he groaned; but the devil a word, good or bad, could she get out of him at all.