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Updated: July 26, 2025
He was in here awhile ago and said he wanted to leave his because he didn't have time to take it to be pressed in time for next winter. Then he went on and joined that crowd in Mr. Parcher's yard, around the corner, that's goin' on a trolley-party. I says, 'I betcher mother maje carry it, and he says, 'Oh no. Oh no, he says.
I betcher it's twelve almost. So let's play a game, and the time'll pass so quick!" "I can't wait till morning for a drink!" she cried. "I'm so thirsty! And I want to lie down!" "Now," he started off cheerily, " now, we'll play the way we used t' before y' got grown-up. Remember all the nice things we used t' do? Callin' on the Queen, and dancin' parties, and " "My back hurts! Awful!"
"Johnnie, don't bump the Moon!" cried the Prince and his gentlemen, waving their canes. "Y' betcher life I won't!" Any large body, the good ship most considerately avoided. As for the small ones, which had no names on them, if she struck one, it glanced off of her like a red-gold spark.
I betcher there's a lot of German bein' spoke in hell these last two or three days. "Oh, you ain't heard the big news, have you? Bein' off your dip and out of commission like you was. Well, we busted old Mister Hindenburg's line in about nine places and now it looks like maybe we'll eat Thanksgivin' dinner in Berlin or Hoboken one."
Beneath her straight black brows her sparkling, black eyes gleamed with restless eagerness. An ugly, jagged, still fresh wound showed beneath a carefully curled fringe of hair on her forehead. "I don't like meeting you this way," Ted was saying. "Are you sure your grandfather would have cut up rough if I had come to the house and called properly?" "You betcher," said his companion promptly.
That man gives me the willies." "How about the sanitarium run by this Dr. Harper?" asked Josie. "Does it have a good reputation?". "About as good as Judas Iscariot!" exclaimed the hotel keeper with violence. "I'd just as soon put any of my nutty kin in the penitentiary and sooner. I betcher that Harper is going to get in trouble some of these days.
"I betcher it's goin' to snow, all right," Happy Jack interrupted the warning. "Chickydees was swarmin' all over the place, t'day." "We-ell, now, yuh don't want to go too much on them chickydees," Applehead dissented. "Change uh wind'll set them flockin' and chirpin'. Ain't ary flake uh snow in the wind t'day, fur's I kin smell and I calc'late I kin smell snow fur's the next one."
Well, Miss Claire is livin' under my roof, an' you can betcher life I'm on the job relievin' her garden-angel o' the pertectin' end o' the business. But Miss Claire's that proud an' inderpendent-like she ain't contented to be idle. She's bound to make her own livin', which, she says, it's everybody's dooty to do, some ways or other.
And you mustn't ask any questions yourself, for what is going to happen is to be a wonderful surprise!" "You betcher life it is!" murmured Martha complacently to herself, after Claire had hastened off to confer with the children and plan a program for the great day. Ma to make the wedding-cake! Cora to recite her "piece."
"Must a took it into the shack with 'm!" Another one laughed rather loudly. Too loudly for a thief who did not feel perfectly secure in his thieving. "Betcher we c'ud taken his saddle hoss out the pen an' ride 'im off, and he wouldn't miss 'im till he jest happened to look down and see where his boots was wore through the bottom hoofin' it!" continued the speaker contentedly.
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