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"She s'poses writing talks to people; she thinks that's the way they read it." Grandmamma Parlin thought the man was probably an impostor. She went herself and talked with him; but, when she came back, instead of searching the closets for old garments, as Dotty had expected, she seated herself at her sewing, and did not offer to bestow a single copper on the beggar.
Monkey Brand, who was standing in the stable-door near by, lantern in hand, preparatory to taking up his watch in the young horse's box, coughed. Silver turned and saw him. "Good-night," he said. "Yes, sir," said the little man, gazing up at the moon. "There is some good in him after all. Some good in us all, I s'poses." Jim Silver approached him.
"Nobody knows how much 'tis," said he: "but everybody s'poses that will and all it must be thirty or forty thousand," and as the doctor was just then seen riding into the yard John walked away to attend to his master's horse.
"I s'poses," observed Robin meditatively, slightly wrinkling his little nose where the freckles were. "Well, mummie?" "Old people don't generally like to move about much, but I think it would be very good for you and me to go into the country while father's away."
"Well, I s'poses he will; but now, Miss Feemy, I wonder is he a quiet sort of man? will he be fighting at all, do you think?" "Really then, I can't tell; but even if he does, they say you can take your own part pretty well, when it's necessary."
Afore many years I'll be put quietly away, and though I'd prefer bein' beautifully sewed up and launched shipshape in blue water, with a hundred pound weight for to keep me down, I s'poses it won't make much difference, nohow. Anyhow, if I lives as long as old Wiggins, I hopes I may go as well at the end.
The last time he sees her, so he puts it up, is at the last station back some twenty miles in the hills; an' he s'poses all the time later, she's inside ridin' herd on her progeny, ontil now. "'I don't reckon, says Old Monte, lookin' gloomy-like at the infant, 'that lady is aimin' to saw this yore young-one onto the stage company none?
How big do you s'pose her mind is, Jennie Vance?" "Big as a thimble, perhaps," replied Jennie, doubtfully. "Why, I shouldn't think, now, 'twas any larger than the head of a pin," said Dotty, with decision; "s'poses heaven is top o' this room! Why, Jennie Vance, I persume it's ever so much further off 'n Mount Blue don't you?" "O, yes, indeed! What queer ideas such children do have!
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