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Hazeltine is calling on me more than any other person or persons in this house?" This was something of a poser, but the Captain did his best. He sat on the edge of a chair and rubbed his knee, and then blurted out, "Well, I s'pose I that is, we thought he was, jest 'cause he nat'rally would; that's 'bout all. If I'd thought why, see here, Elsie, don't YOU think he's comin' to see you?"
It happened the same week old Mis' Hicks had a doctor from the city for an operation, and the Millerses barn was struck by lightning and burnt up, and so I s'pose it's no wonder I've sorter lost track of it." Miss Evelina's veiled face was wholly averted now, and Miss Hitty studied her shrewdly. She noted that the black gown was well-worn, and had, indeed, been patched in several places.
"S'pose you wantchee catchee olo chinaware, compradore savez talkee my," represents, "If you want to get some old chinaware your Chinese agent will let me know," while I have heard "two times twicee" for "twice two," and "last day to-night" for "last evening."
Dropping his pitchfork, he stretched his hands toward me. "I s'pose," he added, "it ain't no use to ask you when you got out?" In a flash it came to me I had often read that the victims of a certain form of mania imagined all others to be insane. My plain and straightforward answers to his vague and rambling interrogations had failed of the desired effect.
"If you was a little older you might get a chance to drive a street car, but I s'pose you're too young." "Yes, I don't think they would take me." "I've thought sometimes I should like such a chance myself," said Joel. "I've got tired of the country. I should like to live in the city where there's theaters, and shows, and such like. Do you know what the drivers on street cars get?"
"What do you s'pose," he began and the voice was so nearly a whimper that Raven was not surprised to see tears on his cheeks "what do you s'pose I wanted my gun for? To use on you? Or him? No. On me. But I don't know now as I've got the strength to use it. I'm done."
He was a great wit, as one remark of his will show. In travelling up the country after he had been at school, we once saw some old deserted native gunyahs, and he said to me as we rode by, pointing to them, "Gentleman's 'ouse, villa residence, I s'pose, he's gone to his watering place for the season p'r'aps." At another time, being at a place called Crowlands, he asked me why it was called so.
And yet your C. of E.-ism hasn't " He stopped abruptly, as if he had just arrested himself in a tactless remark. "Go on," I said. "And yet your religion," he continued gently, "hasn't proved much of a vital force in your life, has it? Didn't it go to pieces at the first assault of the world?" "I s'pose it did," I confessed humbly.
She looked at the long lumber-wagon, partly filled with barrels, and was on the point of replying, "No, thank you, sir," when a bright idea occurred to her. "Do you s'pose, sir, I can get to my sister any quicker if I ride?"
This seemed like a rebuke, and Janet kept silent. "Ain't ye got no curious feelin' 'bout yer mother?" "Cap'n Billy, you haven't ever let me miss anything in all my life. I s'pose that's why I haven't asked. I never knew her, did I, Cap'n Billy? You made up for everything." This unnerved Billy.
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