At twelve the Commodore came up from
Nyack, where he left his yacht, and joined us; we got some luncheon,
went out again at one, and between that and five bagged all the cock,
the balance, as you would call it, of the quail, and the other two
bunnies."
"Well, then, you made good work of it, I tell you, and you won't do
nothin' like that agin this winter--not in Warwick; but I won't touch
them quail--it's a sin to break that bunch--but you don't never care to
take the rabbits home, and the old woman's got some beautiful fresh
onions--she'll make a stew of them--a smother, as you call it, in a
little less than no time, Archer; and I've got half a dozen of them big
gray snipe--English snipe--that I killed down by my little run'-side;
you'll have them roasted with the guts in, I guess! and then there's a
pork-steak and sassagers--and if you don't like that, you can jist go
without. Here, Brower, take these to your mother, and tell her to git
supper right stret off--and you tell Emma Jane to make some buckwheat
cakes for A---! he can't sup no how without buckwheat cakes; and I sets
a great store by A---! I does, by G--! and you needn't laugh, boys, for
I doos a darned sight more than what I doos by you.
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