United States or Senegal ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Bascom, the practical, moved toward the edge of the seat. "Take your arm away, Seth," she cautioned. "They'll see you." "Who'll see me? What do I care who sees me? Ain't a man got a right to put his arm around his own wife, I'd like to know?" "Humph! Well, all right. I can stand it if you can. Only I cal'late your young Brown man is in for somethin' of a shock, that's all.
I cal'late it's all over town by now." "What do you mean by that?" Lute's dignity was outraged. "All over town! I never told him nothin'." "No. Only that Ros and Mr. Colton were together and 'twas three o'clock in the afternoon. And goodness knows how much more! DO be quiet! Seems sometimes as if I should lose patience with you altogether. Is this Carver the Colton girl's young man?
Bloomer answered, "I've heard you," he said. And added, fervently and under his breath, "Godfreys!" "Primmie," began Martha, again, but Captain Jethro broke in. "Quiet, Martha Phipps," he ordered. "Stop your talkin', all hands. Marietta, do you cal'late you could get under way with mouth organ music?" "Why why, I don't know. Maybe I could if if it played church tunes."
"That front door is locked and the key's been lost for more'n a fortn't. Cal'late Lulie forgot that when she told him to skip out that way. He can't GET out. He's in that front entry now and he'll have to stay there till all hands have gone and the cap'n gone to bed. That's a note, ain't it!... Sshh! They're goin' to begin again."
"You see, Al," he explained, "I'm I'm kind of er shaky and Rachel will be worried, I'm afraid. She knows me pretty well and she'll cal'late I'm just gettin' ready to to bust loose again." Albert interrupted. "No, she won't, Laban," he said. "We'll show her that you're not." "You won't say anything to her about my er enlistin', Al? Don't. No, no.
"I cal'late it does look sort o' funny to you, Tunis, to see me come sailing down this way, armed like a pirate." "I wouldn't call it exactly funny. But it is surprising," admitted Tunis. "And Queenie looks as surprised as anybody." "Yes, she does, for a fact," agreed Cap'n Ira, squinting across the heap of loose sand at the gray mare. "I kind o' wonder what she's thinking about."
"Captain," began Ellery. Hammond interrupted him. "Hold on!" he said. "Belay right there. If you and I are to cruise in the same family and that's what I hear is likely to happen I cal'late we'll heave overboard the cap'ns and Misters. My name's 'Nathaniel' 'Nat' for short." "All right. And mine is 'John. Captain Nat, I mean how can I ever thank you?" "Thank me? What do you want to thank me for?
Cal'late I'll have to be runnin' along now, Jed." Jed Winslow selected a new and unpainted sailor from the pile near him. He eyed it dreamily. "Well, Gabe," he observed, "if you must, you must, I suppose. Seems to me you're leavin' at the most interestin' time. We've been talkin' about this and that, same as you say, and now you're leavin' just as 'this' has got here. Maybe if you wait wait a "
I been readin' up about you folks for a long time back. I subscribed to The Fillum Universe that tells all about you. I'd like to try actin' before the cam'ra myself. But I cal'late I ain't got much 'screen charm," the waitress added seriously. "I'm too fat. And I wouldn't do none of them comedy pictures where the fat woman always gets the worst of it. But you must take lovely photographs."
'I'M feelin' pretty average satisfied with life just now, Mary-'Gusta, he said, 'and as for Zoeth well, he asked me this mornin' if I didn't cal'late 'twas wicked for him and me to be so contented with the things of this world, so I know HE'S all right.
Word Of The Day