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I merely sez, "If you want to do anything to remember the place, you can buy me a yard and a half of linen lace to trim that night-cap, or a under-clothe, Josiah." But he acted agitated here, and sez he, "I presoom that it is cotton lace." Sez I, "I wish you'd be megum, Josiah Allen. This lace is perfectly beautiful, and it is jest what they say it is.
Would this be the Ordeh of the Gyartah? one said, pointing. 'I presoom likely. No! The Garter has "Honey swore" I know that much. This is "Tria juncta" something. 'Oh, what's that cunning little copper cross with "For Valurr"? a third cried. 'Say! Look at here! said the young man at the bookcase.
She hain't afraid of the face of man or woman, though she told me, and I believe it, that "her cook wuz that cross and fiery of temper, that she would skair any common person almost into coniption fits." "But," sez she, "the first teacup that she throwed at me, because I wanted to make some pancakes, wuz the last." I don't know what she done to her, but presoom that she held her with her eye.
It wuz a noble statute, more'n fifty feet high, I presoom, with two figures standin' on each side and one on top.
As soon as this other man opened his mouth I said, 'You're Kentucky, ain't you? 'I am, he says; 'and what may you be? I told him right off, for I was pleased to hear good United States in any man's mouth; but he whipped his hands behind him and said, 'I'm not knowing any man that fights for a Tammany Dutchman. But I presoom you've been well paid, you dam gun-runnin' Yank.
"Well, as to that, ma'am, you must be guided by taste. I've 'eard of men of my years an' standin' bein' styled 'obble-de-'oys. My name, likewise, is open to question. Some of my friends calls me 'Erring others of 'em, Raw 'Erring others, again, the Bloater. But I'm in no wise partikler, I did come from Miss Reading to 'ave an interview with Mrs Dashwood whom I presoom "
I dare presoom to say that he would lay his head down under some wayside tree and cry I hain't a doubt on't.
"There's nothing sweeter on the face of the earth, and I presoom, sir, that you know it. I am a foe to slavery, gentlemen, everywhere and always. In the sacred cause of freedom I have been tarred and feathered and rode upon a rail. In comparison with twenty years in Austrian hands that ain't a lot, but it was more than I bargained for, and as much as I wanted.
He knew that nothin' but God's grace wuz strong enough to reach down and haul 'em up agin to level ground. A few men are so strong-footed they can grip on and stay 'round the top for some time, and I presoom this minister, bein' a good-natered man would been glad to had 'em all hung on there, but he must have knowed they wouldn't and couldn't.
We ain't the sort o' characters to presoom on our rep'tations they're bad. If they have the Band at the Depot we don't go, and no error there. If they take the Band we may get cast for medical unfitness. Are you medical fit, Piggy?" said Jakin, digging Lew in the ribs with force. "Yus," said Lew with an oath. "The Doctor says your 'eart's weak through smokin' on an empty stummick.
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