Kind o' makes me laugh now," he observed, "it seems so redic'lous; but it wa'n't no laughin' matter then.

If I looked out o' winder she'd hint it up to me that I was watchin' some woman.

She grudged me even to look at a picture paper; an' one day when we happened to be walkin' together she showed feelin' about one o' them wooden Injun women outside a cigar store." "Oh, come now, Mr.Harum," said John, laughing.
"Wa'al," said David with a short laugh, "mebbe I did stretch that a little; but 's I told ye, she wanted to know where I was daytimes well 's nights, an' ev'ry once 'n a while she'd turn up at my bus'nis place, an' if I wa'n't there she'd set an' wait fer me, an' I'd either have to go home with her or have it out in the office.

I don't mean to say that all the sort of thing I'm tellin' ye of kep' up all the time.

It kind o' run in streaks; but the streaks kep' comin' oftener an' oftener, an' you couldn't never tell when the' was goin' to appear.