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You know it’s hard to walk up hill, and harder still to hop, so Bully and Bawly were soon tired. But do you s’pose that alligator cared? Not a bit of it! Right after them he kept crawling, faster and faster. Bully and Bawly hopped as swiftly as they could, but the alligator kept getting nearer and nearer to them, for he was big and strong, and didn’t mind the hill.
Lacey proposed that Fanny should continue at school two years longer, and at the end of that time he would claim her as his wife. "Why, yes," said Mr. Middleton; "I s’pose I understand; you want her to be more accomplished like, afore you take her down to New Orleans. Well, it’s perfectly nateral, and old Josh’ll spar no pains nor money." And so the conference ended. When Dr.
Off he hopped through the rain, never minding it the least bit, and just as he got to the toadstool what do you s’pose he saw? Why, a big, ugly snake was twined around it, just as a grapevine twines around the clothes-post. “Hello, there!” cried Grandpa. “You don’t need that toadstool at all, Mr. Snake, for water won’t hurt you. I want it for Nellie Chip-Chip, so kindly unwind yourself from it.”
"I s’pose you’s one of the niggers?" said Aunt Dilsey. "Why, yes," returned Rondeau; "but then I was helpin’ and was tryin’ to push them all back so I could get to marster, who was feelin’ so bad that they sent for me, because nobody else could comfort him." Here Rondeau began to fumble in his pocket, as if in search of something.
And his intimate friend and neighbor on the other side of the fence, who had no bone to engage his faculties, he began to fret hisself ’bout the business of his friend. S’pose he was to choke hisself over that bone. S’pose the meat disagreed with him. And he begins to bark warnin’s, but the dawg with the bone he keeps right on.
"What did they say?" "Fanny said nothing, but Julia seemed much pleased with the idea," said William. "I’ll warrant that," returned Mr. Middleton. "She’s tickled enough, and in her own mind she’s run up a bill agin me for at least five hundred. Sunshine is so modest, I s’pose, because Dr. Lacey will be there, that she does not want to seem very glad; but she’ll go.
I s’pose they’ve told you all about Josh, so I needn’t make b’lieve any—but come in—the house looks better inside than it does out." "Ho, Luce," continued he, "where the old boy is your mistress? Tell her thar’s heaps of folks here, and mind tell Aunt Judy to get us up a whalin’ dinner." Here he stopped to take breath for a moment, and then proceeded.
Jack took his aunt out to drive on the afternoon of the intervening day and bought her a blue suit with a red tape around one arm, and some rubbersoled shoes, and a yachting cap and a mackintosh. There was something touching in Aunt Mary’s joyful confidence and anticipation—she having never been cast loose from shore in all her life. "When do you s’pose we’ll get home?" she asked Jack.
“Gracious, I wonder what that can be!” exclaimed Bawly, looking around for a good place to hide. He was just going to crawl under a hollow stump, for he thought perhaps the noise might be made by a bad wolf, or a savage fox, sharpening his teeth on a hard log, when Bawly heard some one say: “There, I’ve dropped my hammer! Oh, dear! Now I’ll have to climb all the way down and get it, I s’pose.”
In these simple creatures’ estimation, New York and Frankfort were the largest places in the world. "I s’pose," said Aunt Katy, "that this New York is mighty nigh three times as large as Frankfort." "Three times as large!" repeated Fanny. "Why, yes, Katy, forty times as large." From that time Aunt Katy looked upon Fanny as one not long for this world.
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