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'E don't come no s'prises 'ere while I'm master of the Saucy Sally!" After this slight breeze, things quickly settled down again on the old lines between master and mate, and the voyage to Chichester Harbor was entirely uneventful, the barge bringing up at a snug anchorage near Emsworth. The next day Mr. Topper had undressed and gone overboard for a swim.
"Just for fun," said Micky. "It would have been a very agreeable s'prise if it had hit me," said Dick. "S'posin' I fire a rock at you jest for fun." "Don't!" exclaimed Micky, in alarm. "It seems you don't like agreeable s'prises," said Dick, "any more'n the man did what got hooked by a cow one mornin', before breakfast. It didn't improve his appetite much."
"But, Danny," she laughed, squeezing his arm tenderly, "you live with Mr. O'Neil and all those other men in a horrible, crawling bunk-house." "Oh, do I? I'll have you know that our bunk-houses don't crawl. And besides But wait! It's a s'prise." "A s'prise?" she queried, eagerly. "For me?" He nodded. "Tell me what it is, quick! You know I never could wait for s'prises."
He finished his meal, then looked on until Rouletta leaned back with regretful satisfaction; thereupon he broke out: "Wal, I got more s'prise for you." "You you can't surprise a toad, and I feel just like one. Isn't food good?" Now Rouletta had learned much about this big woodsman's peculiarities; among other things she had discovered that he took extravagant delight in his so-called "s'prises."
As he walked away he grinned within. "Gee! I talked to that omelet Berg' rac like I'd known it all my life!" Other s'prises for Istra's party he sought. Let's see; suppose it really were her birthday, wouldn't she like to have a letter from some important guy? he queried of himself. He'd write her a make-b'lieve letter from a duke. Which he did.
"But all the same Crawfish prances into camp on this yere occasion with Julius bushwacked 'way 'round back in his shirt, an' sech vacant spaces about his person as ain't otherwise occupied a- nourishin' of minor bull-snakes plenty profuse. "Of course them snakes is all holdin' back, bein', after all, timid cattle; an' so none of us s'spects Crawfish is packin' any sech s'prises.
Tony's father, though, was a passenger, and he wanted to come to America, and so he got aboard the 'White Shield' and came here, right where Tony was; and, wasn't that funny?" "I should think it was." "He and Tony were real glad to see one another. Juggie called it, aunty, 'a second s'prise." The "s'prises," though, were not all over.
The boy came back muttering, "Miss Nash left this note for you, sir, the stewardess says." Mr. Wrenn opened the green-and-white Caravanserai letter excitedly. Perhaps Istra, too, was dressing for the party! He loved all s'prises just then.
"The Yankees have found out Daws is thar in the Gap," he said, "an' they are goin' to slip over before day ter-morrer and s'prise him. Hit don't make no difference to us, which s'prises which does it?"
He tries to make it a grandjury matter next co't-time. "Speakin' of nuptials, however, you can't tell much about women. Thar's a girl who shorely s'prises us once in a way out in Wolfville. Missis Rucker, who runs the O. K. Restauraw, gets this female from Tucson to fry flap-jacks an' salt hoss, an' he'p her deal her little gastronomic game. This yere girl's name is Jennie- Tucson Jennie.
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