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I'm bound to get the better of you in the long run, whether in the body or out of the body." Uncle Jesse seldom came to our house without bringing us something, even if it were only a bunch of sweet grass. "I favour the smell of sweet grass," he said. "It always makes me think of my mother." "She was fond of it?" "Not that I knows on. Dunno's she ever saw any sweet grass.
'Got ye, 'ain't they? says I. Old Sal Flint she looked up, an' if there'd been a butcher-knife handy, I guess she'd ha' throwed it. 'It's that Injun! says she to Mis' Giles. 'Don't you take no notice! 'I dunno's I'm an Injun, says I, 'I dunno how much Injun I be. I can't look so fur back as that. I dunno's there's any more Injun in me than there is devil in you! I says.
Never before had he been assailed on his own ground; it seemed as if the whole township now conspired to bait him. "Well" she remarked weakly, "I dunno's it does any hurt, so long as they can tell what they mean by it." Nicholas threw her a pitying glance. He scorned to waste eternal truth on one so dull. "Well," she went on, in desperation, "that ain't all, neither.
The best we have is yours, and I guarantee that you will be made comfortable." "He offered to extend you the courtesies of the house make you guests of the hotel," Gray added, "but I knew you wouldn't accept." "Dunno's I want to stay at all," Gus murmured, angrily. "We ain't no better'n we was a half hour ago." "To be sure, but I've made you better known.
"See here, father," said she, with the desperation of speaking her mind for the first time to one from whom she had hitherto kept awesomely remote; "when we moved into the new house, I dunno's there was any talk about your comin', too. I guess it never entered into our heads you'd do anything but to stick to the old place. An' now, after it's all past an' gone, the neighbors say"
He was on his guard against tricks. Suppose they were to enlist him as a worker, and then make him fight! The other went on. "If you're competent, you'll get to France all right. We need men over there in a hurry, and we won't waste your time." "Well, now," said Jimmie, "I dunno's you'll want me at all when you hear about me. I'm a Socialist."
Several of his rather tart rejoinders reached her ears as she went from kitchen to livingroom and back again. Finally removing the apron, her task done, she seated herself with Diddimus in her lap within the radiance of the lamp and within hearing of all that was said in the store. "No. I dunno's I ever did tell ye quite all my business, Joab.
Prices is all going up so, Ah declare, Ah was just saying to Lee T'resa Ah dunno what we're all going to do if the dear Lord don't look out for us. And, Mist' Wrenn, Ah dunno's Ah like to have you coming in so late nights. But Ah reckon Ah can accommodate you." "It's a good deal of a favor, isn't it, Mrs. Zapp?" Mr. Wrenn was dangerously polite.
"De army don't come dis way, dey foller de road by de Souf Forks." "Where do they go then?" "Dunno, Mars'r; dey don't tell whar de go," replied the mulatto, shaking his head. This man seemed to be intelligent, and know more about the region than most of the negroes. Deck bade them good-by, and resumed his march. "I dunno's we need go any furder," said Life, after they had gone a few rods.
"Uh-huh!" said Scattergood. "Dunno's the boys quite see what it was all about, but they calculated to please me, so they put it through jest as it stood. Mighty nice fellers up to the legislature." "Pretty far in the future," said Keith, "and mighty expensive." "Maybe not so far," said Scattergood, "and I could make a darn good start narrow-gaugin' it with a hunderd thousand."
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