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"Now look here, Ozzie B. The Lord don't expec' nobody but a fool to walk into a tan-hidin'. If you go to school now, old Triggers will tan yo' hide, see? Then he'll send word to paw an' when you get home to-night you'll git another one." "Maw said I was to allers do my duty. Oh, I can't tell him a lie!" "You've got to lie, Ozzie B. They's times when everybody has got to lie.
When the time came, therefore, Cosmo presented himself. With a look of astonishment shadowed by disappointment, the worthy farmer held out his hand. "Laird," he said, "I didna expec' YOU!" "What for no?" returned Cosmo. "Haena I been yer fee'd man for months!" "Ye put me in a kin' o' a painfu' doobt, laird. Fowk tellt me ye had fa'en heir til a sicht o' siller!"
Tom looked perplexed. "We just got to take our chances on the climbing. Of course, there's bound to be th' risk of accident. But when I give th' word, you mosey, and if one of them pots you, it'll be because my six-shooter's empty." "But you can't expec' t' shoot an' climb!" objected Tom. "Course not," replied Alfred, calmly. "Division of labour: you climb; I shoot."
"I maun e'en gang while I ha'e company, I dinna expec' to leeve muckle longer at ony rate, but wouldna' like to be eaten by the bears;" and for several years the one who ventured alone to the house of a neighbour after dark was looked upon as possessing more courage than prudence.
"Let 'em have all the heaven they can git," he would remark, wiping his bloody knife upon the mane of his horse. "I expec' to smoke the pipe o' peace with all I meet on Canaan's shore, Cherokees, Creeks, or Chickasaws, Reg'lars, Millish, or Settlers."
Hopewell is rather better than the ordinary run of men, I allow." Uncle Jason chuckled. "It never struck me," he said, "that Hopewell was one o' the carousin' kind. I'd about as soon expec' Mr. Middler to cut up sech didoes as Hope Drugg." Mrs. Scattergood flushed and her eyes snapped. If she was birdlike, she could peck like a bird, and her bill was sharp.
I charged him with his perfidy, but he vowed so earnest that he had not told these people of our fancies, or ever had spoke to 'em, that I had to believe him. "'I expec', says he, 'that they're jus' makin'-believe as we are. There aint no patent on make-believes. "This didn't satisfy me, an' as he seemed to be so careless about it I walked away, an' left him to his pipe.
Ye mought ez well gin a message o' kindness ter a wolf, an' expec' him ter kerry it ter some lonesome, helpless thing a-wounded by the way-side, ez gin it ter a Kittredge." "I never will speak ter one o' 'em agin ez long ez I live," she cried, with a fresh gust of tears. "Waal," exclaimed the old man, reassuringly, and chirping high, "hyar we all be agin, jes' the same ez we war afore.
Sary was pacified when Eleanor came out of the room and handed her a large paper bundle. "Sary, I have a little present for you because we made so much trouble to-night." "Oh, Miss Nolla, Ah'm much obleeged t' you-all. Ah don' mind trouble, onny yoh see Ah expec' comp'ny to-night."
'I suppose you know the way; but you're a very little boy to be out alone. 'I had to run after Lucky; Nurse was at Mrs. Tikes'. 'Tikes' Farm? That is some way from here. 'Is it twenty miles? 'No, but it is nearly two. I expect your nurse will wonder where you are. 'I expec' she will; but I likes being here. Are you a proper grown-up person? 'How do you mean?
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