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"We s'posed," continued Uncle Jake, "that they died o' old age." "You mentioned colts?" "I did so. Colts die anyhow and anyway. It's a solid fact that we've lost more animals in this pasture than anywheres else. I'll take my oath to that." "Good!" said the Professor heartily. "You have given to me information of value." The Professor returned to the corrals.
My father he got fightin' mad when he was drunk, and pitched me down two flights of 'em, and my back was most clean broke in two, so I couldn't git out o' bed forever, till just now." "Why, poor child, who took care of you?" "Mother she minded me when she warn't out washin'." "And did she send you here to-day?" "Well! however could she, bein' as how she's dead? I s'posed you knowed that.
He was sorry, he said; he knew Ellen was in the best place; but her aunt wanted her, and "he s'posed she'd have to go." He did not know what was the matter with Miss Fortune; it was a little of one thing and a little of another; "he s'posed she'd overdid, and it was a wonder, for he didn't know she could do it.
And as I told Josiah time and time again, "that for stiddy ridin' I preferred a mare to a mystery." Wall, it run along for a year; and Josiah said he s'posed he'd have to write on, and get the pass renewed. As near as he could make out, it run out about the 4th day of April.
Her cargo was s'posed to be dry goods, provisions an' lumber, but dere was a good deal more aboard her, guns, powder an' what they call contraband, ef you know jes' what that is. I don't rightly." "I do," agreed Stuart. "Go ahead." "Well, Sah, dis hyar brig Nancy, havin' stopped at Port-au-Prince, started on down de coast, when, strikin' a heavy blow, she los' her maintopmast.
I never s'posed you knew, but that night I kissed your sister in the entry an' asked her, I thought 'twas you." "Yes, I knew that well enough. I was in the buttery and heard it all. There, le's not talk about it." Solon came a step nearer. "But will you, Susan?" he persisted. "Will you? I know Jenny'd like it." "I guess she would, too," said Susan. "There! we don't need to talk no further!
He had to go with me to pick out the apron, and he fretted like sixty because I would buy one made of decent cloth! I was all in just over that!" "We s'posed he was a nice, pleasant man it's too bad!" Miss Crilly was the only one who found words for reply. "I don't have anything to read," went on the disappointed woman. "He doesn't want to know anything.
He limped a little, too, as he came forward. "I I couldn't run very fast with my sore foot, or I'd a' got away from you," he said slowly. "But why should you want to get away?" asked Mr. Brown. "Well, I took some of your stuff I was hungry and I went through the ice box and I s'posed you'd be looking for a policeman to have me arrested. That's why I ran.
He air goin' to marry Mr. Young's sister, Helen, an' he air gittin' some pink peach when he gets her, ye can bet on that." "But he'll get me by my neck if he can," lamented the dwarf, in despair. "Waldstricker air a mean duffer a mighty mean duffer." "He air awful religious," reflected Tess, soberly. "I s'posed he were awful good." The dwarf made a gesture of disgust with his hand.
If Jerry thinks 'e can show us 'ow to shoot 'e has made a 'ell of a outer." "D'you know," shyly, "we 'ave done somethin' big!" "Yes; I s'pose we 'ave." The very men who had fought on and made good in face of odds that no man in his senses would have bet on at a thousand to one chance, opined that they had "done something big," or at least they "s'posed so."
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