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No, the rasfodist would have to set down and hold up his hands before him, as I have done sometimes before a big pile of work, when I have seen a wagon load of visitors a-stoppin' at the gate to stay all day. I have just clasped my hands and sez, "Oh dear me!" Or in aggravated cases I would say, mebby, "Oh dear me suz!" And that wuz about all I could say here.
"My suz!" quoth Susanna, dismayed by the vast proportions of Katharine's "little party," "however shall I give such a multitude even a bite apiece?" "I'll help!" cried Mrs. Clackett, quite understanding "a bite apiece" meant no personal violence. "I've lots of stuff baked at home. I'll fetch a basket of it in a jiffy." "I, too!" echoed Mrs.
Lucky I hadn't put down the carpet yet, though I'd laid out Oh, my suz!" This was the first coherent sentence, if such it can be called, which escaped the terrified woman, while she was being undressed and freshly clothed in the warm things Eunice had provided. "Yes, dear heart. But never mind the stairs. Did you find Katharine?" "Nuther hide nor hair of her.
He went out, rather noisily closing the door behind him; and, fairly snatching up the plate of toast, Susanna repaired to the room where, in an unlighted gloom, Eunice awaited her supper. "My suz! Eunice, why didn't you light up 'fore this? I meant to do it myself, but what with runnin' up-stairs to tend to Moses an' showin' that blunderheaded deacon the ways of doin' our chores, I let it go."
"Crothers is right used up. They say he tipped over the lamp in his hurry to get up and things happened." "Dear suz!" Marcia Lowe was lapsing into old-fashioned speech. "And Miss Lowe, little Miss Cynthia was thar after hours! They do say she acted like she was possessed. She pulled Crothers out of the flames and saved his life I reckon that is, if it is saved!
Though not as ravenous as he had been that afternoon by the riverside, he even now devoured, rather than ate, the sandwiches and cakes, swallowing them noisily and so rapidly that what the housekeeper had supposed would be sufficient to last any one for at least twenty-four hours disappeared in less than as many minutes. "Well, my suz! If that don't beat the Dutch!
Poor creeter! they fit then because they didn't want his bones, and they starved him so that he wuzn't much besides bones, and they didn't want his bones anyway, and they put chains onto them poor old bones, and led 'em off to prison. And now hull cities and countries would hold it their chief honor to lie about it, and claim the credit of givin' 'em burial. O dear suz! O dear me!
"O, now she'll have a good father and a good mother, and won't sit in the coal-hod no more. Now it's your turn, Susy." "O dear suz! I was going to tell a story, a fairy story. It was going to be a real good one, about 'The Bravest of Lion's Castle, and I couldn't think of a thing to say, and now Prudy has drove it all out of my head."
"I'll be entirely satisfied, Miss Foster," said Dabney, "if you'll only ask somebody to get us something to eat." "Eat!" exclaimed Mrs. Kinzer. "Why, the poor fellows! Of course they're hungry." "Cap'n Kinzer allers does know jes' de right t'ing to do," mumbled Dick in a half-smothered voice; and his mother let go of him, with "Law, suz! So dey be!"
And then there wuz a century plant with a blossom stem thirty feet high, and a posey accordin', one posey agin as high as my Josiah, and his father, and etc., etc., etc., and Ury. Oh, good gracious! oh, dear me suz! That plant wuzn't expected to blow out in several years, but all of a sudden it shot up that immense stalk, up, up to thirty feet.
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