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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I see Will out rounding up his cows, but Sam Woodhull ain't turned a hand to hooking up to pull in west o' town with the others." "That's easy," smiled another. "Sam Woodhull is where he's always going to be hanging around the Wingate girl. He's over at their camp now." "Well, I dunno's I blame him so much for that, neither. And he kin stay there fer all o' me.
After everybody had haw hawed and cracked his joke over Obadiah's last repetition of the anecdote, Peleg observed: "I dunno's az a feller kin blame Perez fer givin intew her. The gal's derned hansum, though she be mos' too black complected."
She was making a very red rose with a pink middle. "I dunno's I can say I'm surprised to see you, Lucindy," she began, with the duteous aspect of one forced to speak her disapproval, "for I ketched you comin' out o' the Pitmans' yard." "Yes," said Lucindy, smiling, and plaiting her skirt between her nervous fingers. "Yes, I went in to see if they'd let me take Old Buckskin a spell to-morrow."
"I dunno's I exac'ly give him an option on it; but I was sort of looking for him to turn up 'most any day. Course I'd have to give him the first chance, if it comes to a " "What is an option?" asked Lydia. "An option is a now, let me see if I can make a legal term plain to the female mind: An option, my dear young lady, is "
But there!" she added, presently, as the soothing warmth of her own kitchen stove began to penetrate, "I dunno's I oughter call it a Godforsaken place. I'm kind o' glad to git back." There was silence for a few minutes, while she toasted her feet, and the man stood shambling from one foot to the other and furtively watching her and the road. Suddenly she rose, and lifted a pot-cover.
"If he's got the receipt, an' the things an' all, an' she took the money, I dunno's you can get 'em," said Caleb, "unless you could prove in a court o' law that she wa'n't in her right mind. I dunno how that would work." Amanda stood looking him in the face. For the first time in all her gentle life she was questioning masculine superiority, and its present embodiment in Caleb Rivers.
"Do they so?" asked Caleb, but Nicholas returned, with an unwonted fierceness: "Does that go to the right spot with you? Do you want to see a clock-face starin' over Tiverton, like a full moon, chargin' ye to keep Old War-Wool Eaton in memory?" "Well, no," replied Eli gently, "I dunno's I do, an' I dunno but I do."
When the young minister had somewhat weakly climbed the two front steps, he elected not to sit in the best room, for he was a little chilly, and would like the sun. Presently he was installed in the new cane-backed rocker, and Mrs. Oldfield had offered him some currant wine. "Though I dunno's you would," said she, anxiously flaunting a principle righteous as his own. "I s'pose you're teetotal."
He turned to the man at his side. "All done. How did you like it?" "Well" Uncle William squinted thoughtfully at his program "I thought I was goin' to like it fust-rate if he'd got to it." "He didn't get there, then?" The man laughed. "Not to the iceberg." Uncle William shook his head. A kindly look grew in his face. "I dunno's he's so much to blame, though.
Gray's to see how my pilot was getting on, and tried to scare up a job for you at overseering, in the place of that chap who was took off in the night time." "I dunno's I am a-caring for a job of that sort," answered Kelsey. "I've got a sight of work of my own that had oughter be did."
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