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"We must take sech as comes, lads, without grumbling; though I do'nt know's thar's any sin in wishing it war a little more to our liking.
''Tain't what's on the head, but what's in it thet's the important thing, said the poet. 'Did I ever tell ye what I wrote about the birds? 'Don' know's ye ever did, said Uncle Eb, stirring his fire. 'The boy'll like it, mebbe, said he, taking a dirty piece of paper out of his pocket and holding it to the light.
"I don't know's I ever did give you anything, Letty," he said, with a new pain stirring in his face. "I don't b'lieve I ever thought of it. It wasn't that I begrudged anything." "Oh, my soul, no!" cried Letty, in an agony of her own. "I knew how 't was. It wa'n't your way, but they didn't know that.
"I was goin' right by, an' I thought I'd stop an' see if you want to do anything about them old pines o' yourn." "I don't know's I do, Mr. Ferris," said John stiffly. "Well, that business is easy finished," said the contractor, with a careless air and a slight look of disappointment. "Just as you say, sir. You was full of it a spell ago, and I kind o' kep' the matter in mind.
They did piecework so much per fathom, and were constitutionally, he admitted, a bit more particular as to the so much than as to the fathom. While the Cornish and Welsh men, receiving weekly wages, had also grown slack and did far less work than they did at first and than they might, could, and should do. "But," said old Tom frankly, scratching his head, "I don't know's I'd like the job myself.
"As how?" asked Boone. "Why, I don't know's it's exactly right for me to tell as how," replied Isaac, shrewdly, who was fearful of saying what Ella herself might wish kept a secret. "I understand ye," said Boone, in a low tone, heard only by Isaac; and the subject was then changed for one more immediately connected with their present journey.
Van introduced his charges briefly. Mrs. Dick shook hands with them both. "Well!" she said, "I like you after all! And it's lucky I do, for if I didn't I don't know's I should take you or not, even if Van did say I had to." Van took her by the shoulders and shook her boyishly. "You'd take a stick of dynamite and a house afire, both in one hand, if I said so," he announced. "Now don't get hostile."
He paused and relit his cigar. Captain Cy thoughtfully marked with his fork on the tablecloth. "Hum!" he grunted. "That's a very interestin' yarn. Yes, yes! don't know's I ever heard a more interestin' one. I presume likely there ain't a mite of proof that it's true?" "Not an atom. I told you it was a fairy tale. And I mustn't be quoted in the matter.
I wouldn't have spoken if I had known, but she needn't have let on they was hers an' make everything unpleasant. 'I guess them beans taste just as well as other folks', says she, and she wouldn't never speak to me afterward." "Do' know's I blame her," ventured Mr. Briley. "Women folks is dreadful pudjicky about their cookin'. I've always heard you was one o' the best o' cooks, Mis' Tobin.
"A man that laughs all the time ain't likely to mean it, Mose, but I don't know's I would say that Johnson is exackly a fool. No, he's a pretty wise man, of his breed. I reckon from what he said 'bout Walsh that he's in with the jockey syndicate. No wonder he wins races! Sure, he could get Walsh for me, or any other crook-legged little burglar that would send word to Johnson what I was doing!
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