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"Are you willing to try?" "S'pect I hev ter, ennyhow, ef yer say so." "Now, Nimbus, haven't I always been a good master to you?" reproachfully. No answer. "Haven't I been kind to you always?" "Yer made Marse War' gib me twenty licks once." "Well, weren't you saucy, Nimbus? Wouldn't you have done that to a nigger that called you a 'grand rascal' to your face?" "S'pecs I would, Mahs'r."
Never having had any experience in that line, I'm in the dark. How about it, Joe?" laughed Frank. "I never heard of one that did. S'pect he was snoopin' around to see what we was a-doin' here. Then there was the smell of the blood from the deer, you know," explained the Florida boy wisely. "Why, of course! That's it. But I say, Frank, do we cut out the bear hunt now?" "That's for you to say.
Olmney," said Barby not minding her, "he's took and sent us a great basket chock full of apples. Now wa'n't that smart of him, when he knowed there wa'n't no one here that cared about 'em?" "They are a particularly fine kind," said Fleda. "Did you hear about the goose and turkey?" "Yes," said Fleda laughing. "The doctor thinks he has done the thing just about right this time, I s'pect.
We've none too much time to dress." Dolly and Dotty went to their room, and it was rather a silent Dolly who sat down to the dressing-table to brush her golden locks. "Whatamatter, Dollums?" said her chum. "Sad at thoughts of going home?" "Oh, no; really, Dot, I'm glad to go home. We've had a magnificent time here, but I'm well, I s'pect I'm homesick." "So'm I, a little, now that you mention it.
And you, sir?" "Oh, I have some acres of worn-out land over yonder, and but little else." "Well, you're a sight better off than some, I s'pect. It's been pretty tough on all of you, but if you fellows only work like you fought you'll have things a humming before long." There was homely comfort in his philosophy which for the moment cheered me.
"Virgie," said Samson Hat, meeting them under the willow-tree, "when I carries you off and marries you, I s'pect you'll be climbin' up in my loft, too, makin' it comf'able fo' me." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you old, black, impertinent servant of darkness!" Virgie said. "Indeed, when I look at a man, he must be almost white not all white, though, like Roxy's beau." "Who's he, Roxy?"
"I s'pect a great deal could happen there, and the world not know," the housekeeper went on. "Much more than what it does know," said Norton. "I allays think sich must be poor kind o' places. Corners that the world can't see into ain't healthy. Now I like a place like Shadywalk, that you know all through; and if there's something wrong, why it has a chance to get mended.
The "Journal" she hugged to her heart, and her short dress she held up to her waist, "'Cause I s'pect I mus' keep it out o' the mud," said she, as anxiously as any lady with a train. She had no trouble in finding the church, for the road was straight, but the cane kept tripping her up. "Naughty fing!
"Dog-gone! hain't he a funny feller!" said the milk-faced boy, with his big eyes lifted wistfully to the boy in the window. "He says onc't his pap broke his arm w'en he was whippin' him," whispered the boy in the window. "Bet his pa's a wicked man!" said the milk-faced boy, in a dreamy, speculative way "s'pect he's a drunkard, er somepin'!"
"Then that shows how much they need a teacher," Miss Sterling said, and Dollie felt sure that it must be right for her to remain at home, that those kittens might not be neglected. "They run away 'thout asking to be s'cused, and they walk right into the saucer of milk. I don't s'pect them to use spoons, but they needn't sit down in it. How'd I look, if I sat down in MY plate when I was eating?"
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