He Could Be All
This, When He Chose To Relax From His Sullen, Morose Mood; And, Much
As I Disliked Him, I Have Listened With Interest For Hours To His
Droll Descriptions Of South American Life And Manners.
Naturally indolent, and a constitutional grumbler, it was with the
greatest difficulty that Moodie could get him to do
Anything beyond
bringing a few pails of water from the swamp for the use of the
house, and he often passed me carrying water up from the lake
without offering to relieve me of the burden. Mary, the betrothed
of Jacob, called him a perfect "beast"; but he, returning good for
evil, considered HER a very pretty girl, and paid her so many
uncouth attentions that he roused the jealousy of honest Jake, who
vowed that he would give him a good "loomping" if he only dared
to lay a finger upon his sweetheart. With Jacob to back her, Mary
treated the "zea-bear," as Jacob termed him, with vast disdain, and
was so saucy to him that, forgetting his admiration, he declared he
would like to serve her as the Indians had done a scolding woman in
South America. They attacked her house during the absence of her
husband, cut out her tongue, and nailed it to the door, by way of
knocker; and he thought that all women who could not keep a civil
tongue in their head should be served in the same manner.
"And what should be done to men who swear and use ondacent
language?" quoth Mary, indignantly.
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