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Why, looky here, Huck, s'posen de Choosday was New Year's now den! is you gwine to tell me it's dis year in one place en las' year in t'other, bofe in de identical same minute? It's de beatenest rubbage! I can't stan' it I can't stan' to hear tell 'bout it." Then he begun to shiver and turn gray, and Tom says: "NOW what's the matter? What's the trouble?"
Ah s'posen ah mus' bee 9 or 10 years hold, for ah' carried Miss Ann backwards and forwards t' school hev'ry marnin' and den in the hevenin', ah'd stop 'round fer de mails when ah'd go fer to carry her home. "Miss Ann, she used ter gibme money, but hi didn't know what t' do wid hit.
A piece of this was offered to Leland, but, though a short time before he had felt keenly the pangs of hunger, the sight of food now filled him with loathing. "S'posen you offer dis pusson a few pounds, just to see if he'll take it," suggested Zeb, gazing wistfully toward the Indian who held it. Several pieces were given him, all of which he devoured voraciously and demanded more.
"An' s'posen' that you hed married Joe Chandler back in 1876, an' you was rich enough to back up an inventor like that, an' he come to you an' offered to give you half ef you'd up an' help him put 'em on the market, an' s'posen' " "What the land sake's the use o' s'posin'?" Rebecca cried, sharply. "This is 1898, an' I ain't married, thanks be to goodness!" "Ah, but ye could be, ef we was in 1876!
"What's the matter now?" and Parsons looked over his shoulder, but neither he nor his partner reined in their steeds. "Are you buyin' this rifle? or are you makin' believe so's to give me the ten dollars?" "S'posen we was makin' believe?" "Why then I wouldn't take the money, 'cause I ain't out begging." "Don't fret yourself, my son.
"Would n't think that horse had a devil in him as big as a bulldog," observed the horse-driver. "Shake the soul-bolt out of a man, s'posen you do stick to him." "And yet Collins can't ride worth a cuss," contributed Moriarty confidentially. "He's just dropped to this fellow's style. Boss wanted to see him on our Satan, but Collins knew a thundering sight better."
"'But s'posen de patteroles ketch me, Aun' Peggy, w'at I gwine ter do? sez Solomon. "'De patteroles ain' gwine tech you, but ef you doan fin' dat nigger, I 'm gwine git you, en you'll fin' me wusser 'n de patteroles.
"No, of course not. They're angels then not Methodists or anything, but just angels. That is, if they go to heaven." "S'posen they went to the other place?" But Felicity's theology broke down at this point. She turned her back on Peter and walked disdainfully away. The Story Girl returned to the main point with a new argument. "We have such a lovely minister, Peter.
"But s'posen I got too fond of being Presbyterian and couldn't change if I wanted to?" objected Peter. Altogether, the Story Girl had a hard time of it; but she persevered; and one day she came to us with the announcement that Peter had yielded. "He's going to church with us to-morrow," she said triumphantly.
It seems to me she ought to be a bargain at at ten dollars." "An' if you get the cash you're goin' to blow it right in for what the doctor can tell you, an' sich stuff as he thinks your old man ought to have eh?" "That's what I'll do if it costs as much." "S'posen it don't? Allow that you've got five dollars left, what then?"
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