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"I expect, Long, you sailors hev a drefful hard, onsartain time navigatin', don't ye?" "Well, skipper! that are depen's on folks. I don't calk'late to hev no sort of a hard time, ef I don't get riled with it; but these times I doo rile easy." "What onsettles ye, Snapps?" "Well, there's a squall to wind'ard, skipper; 'ta'n't no cat's-paw neither; good no-no-east, ef it's a flaw.
They can tell in a moment whether a man will be complimented by the remark, "I tuk you for a Richmond gemman, never shod have know'd you was from de Norf," or whether it is best to say, "We depen's on de gemmen frum de Norf; folks down hyer never gives noflin; is too pore." But to a Richmond man it is always, "The Yankee is mighty keerful of his money; we depen's on the old sort, marse."
I lak' it, dis one, purty good so far, but I ain' know w'en I'm goin' get tire'. Dat depen's." There was a look of great tenderness in his eyes as he bent towards her and searched her face, but she was not thinking of him, and at length he continued: "Fader Barnum, he's goin' be here nex' Sonday for cheer up dem Injun. Constantine she's got de letter."
Haith! sic wad be a skipper wha wad ill scull yer boat!" said Malcolm, with a laugh at the poor attempt. "Bravo!" said the marquis, who certainly was not over critical. "Can you write a good hand?" "No ill, my lord." "So much the better! I see you 'll be worth your wages." "That depen's on the wages," returned Malcolm. "And that reminds me you 've said nothing about them yet."
'It's nane ye s' get frae me, the gait ye're gaein, Francie! Ye think a heap ower muckle o' yersel. What ye expec, may some day a' come true, but ye hae gien nobody a richt to expec it alang wi' ye, and I canna think, gien ye war fair to yersel, ye wad coont yersel ane it was to be expeckit o'! 'I tauld ye sae, Kirsty! Ye never lay ony weicht upo what a body says! That depen's upo the body.
"Not more, I daresay, than there ought to be," replied the marquis listlessly. "Why do you ask?" "Because I should so like a row! I want to see how the shore looks to the mermaids." "Well, I will take you some day, if we can find a proper boat." "Is yours a proper boat?" she asked, turning to Malcolm with a sparkle of fun in her eyes. "That depen's on my lord's definition o' proper."
They can tell in a moment whether a man will be complimented by the remark, "I tuk you for a Richmond gemman, never shod have know'd you was from de Norf," or whether it is best to say, "We depen's on de gemmen frum de Norf; folks down hyer never gives noflin; is too pore." But to a Richmond man it is always, "The Yankee is mighty keerful of his money; we depen's on the old sort, marse."
Why don't you tie him up?" "'Cause I wasn't born a doctor," grumbled Joey. "Hops is my line I can tie them up. Thought you pleecemen did that sort of thing." The constable coughed. "How long will the doctor be?" he said. "All depen's whether he's at home or not. P'raps he's gone on a twenty mile round." "Then we'd better get a door and carry him somewhere," suggested the policeman.
"Aither for God or for the deevil, my leddy that depen's upo' the fowk themsel's. I say it hauds them up to fecht, an' the thing maun be fouchten oot. Fowk to fecht maun live, an' the herrin' hauds the life i' them, an' sae the catchin' o' the herrin' comes in to be a pairt o' the battle."
Joe Foster set the, ball rolling by asking Ralph how much he had to pay his lawyer. Some one else followed it up with a question relating to his expectations for the future, and in a very few minutes the boy was the object of a perfect broadside of interrogations. "Will you have a hoss of your own?" asked Patsey Welch. "I don't know," was the reply; "that depen's on what my mother'll think."
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