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"Did you fall in, Mun Bun?" "No, I didn't zactly fall in. I I just slipped." "Oh," said Mrs. Bunker. "I thought maybe you'd say the crab pulled you in." "Well, he pretty nearly did," said the little fellow. "He leaned too far over the water," explained Mr. Bunker to his wife. "But I soon got him out. He's all right." "Yes, but I'll have to change his clothes. However, it isn't the first time.
The way he walks an' holds his head, his curls, his fashion of lording it awver the birds an' beasts, the sudden laugh of un he's Will's son, for a thousand pound, an' his mother's alive, like as not." "No mother would have gived up a child that way." "'Zactly so! Onless she gived it to the faither!" said Billy triumphantly. Mr.
I was bound to tell her 'zactly what she didn't want to hear, an' I reckon I done it, an' more'n that if she gets her back up 'bout this, an' goes out to Cobhurst, that old cook'll find herself in hot water. It was mighty plain that she was dreadful skeered for fear anybody would think thar was somethin' goin' on 'twixt them two."
"Them Apaches are a cute set," he muttered, as he glided along through the bank of shadow; "I believe they've larned I've been up among them lookin' around. I can't tell 'zactly how they larned it. I've played Injun so often that I know I can do it purty well; but they know there's somethin' in the air, and them signs I spied yesterday showed plain 'nough that they was lookin' for me.
Ma was out on one of her professional engagements, and I got in bed with Pa. I had heard Pa blame Ma about her cold feet, so I got a piece of ice about as big as a raisin box, just zactly like one of Ma's feet, and I laid it right against the small of Pa's back.
"I don't know 'zactly somethin' that sounded mighty like 'spearin' on us." "He's a lanzeer then, by jingo!" "He had better try on his spearin'," said another; "there's shootin' before spearin' mighty good ground, too, behind this hyur painted wall." "The old fellow was mighty frindly at first; what got into him, anyhow?"
Familiarly known as "Aunt Classie," she is very proud of her age and more especially of her long line of descendants. "Law, Miss, I doan know when I was born, but I do know dat I'se sebenteen years old when I was fust sol'. Dey put me an' my brudder up on de auction block at de same time. He brung $1400 but I dis'members zactly what dey paid far me.
"The chap ain't a fool; he's took notice of our warnin's." "I wasn't aware that we had given him any." "Not 'zactly in words, but every time I've met him with the gal, I give the leftenant a scowl. Once I come purty near shakin' my fist at him; he's obsarved it all and is wise in time."
As I descended the ladder he said: "We're so grateful you comed, Doctor. The poor old creatures won't last long. But thanks aren't dollars. I haven't a cent in the world now. The old people have taken what little we had put by. But if I gets a skin t' winter, I'll try and pay you for your visit anyhow." "Skipper John, what relation are those people to you?" "Well, no relation 'zactly."
You see I's not dere at de time, so can't 'zactly say. Moreober, it was bery dark, an' eben if I's dar, I couldn't see peepil in de dark." "You lie! you black scoundrel! and you know that you do. You could tell me much more about this if you chose." "No, indeed, I don't lie if a slabe may dar to counterdick his massa," returned Peter humbly.
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