Emerson Hough

“ Buck, inquire of the gentlemen." The chairman passed the matches for the other's cigar when it was brought; but resumed his discontent.
"What can we do even here? Our rights as men of prominence are denied us even in the wilderness. Once we could spear muskies right out here in front of the dock. If one of us was caught with a spear in his hand now, it'd be him for the rock-pile as soon as the dear people got wind of it. Here's our dogs—whole pack lying around, decrepit, worn out, no good. The dear people objected to our running deer with hounds. ”

“ Buck, the keeper of Turtle Lake Club, threw down his armfuls of wood and smiled. "Bâ oui, M'sieu," he replied, "dose dawg, she's nuisance all right."
"As I was saying, Williams," went on the chairman, resuming his conversation with the president of the bank, "the whole country's crazy these days. We're hysterical. First it's one thing and then another. One editor finds all our troubles due to the abolishment of the Bible from the public schools. Another insists we ought to love the negro as ourselves. Then there are the ladies, God bless 'em. ”

“ She'll smell on dose walk, on dose flower bed, on dose porch. She'll run up on dose porch, seven, h'eight on wan side; seven, h'eight on other side; seven, h'eight on walk; and me, I'll go too, on rope. Dose dawg she'll be gad. Bimeby, she'll lift up its head, all h'eighteen, and she'll say, 'Wow, wow, woo-o-o-o-ww!' I'm shame' of dose dawg. But I'm not know whose house this is.
"And then, M'sieu'—ah, what you mean by chloroform dose dawg? She's got the mos' bes' sense of any mans. She's got more sense than me, Buck. It's dose h'eighteen dawg I'll take on Detraw' that find me my wife, Julie!" ”