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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Dear me!" said the tired old grandmother, when, at about midnight, she repaired to her own cosy little bedroom, "how fidgety she is. I should of s'posed that livin' in the city so, she'd got used to noises." In a day or two Mr. Lincoln and Jenny went back to Boston, bearing with them a long list of articles which Rose must and would have.
Patsy scratched his head with the "ten-toothed comb of Nature," a habit which prevailed with terrible and suggestive frequency when I first came "into my kingdom," and answered: "Lookin' up a girl! Why, I s'posed yer knew that. I dunno 'zackly. Jim says all the fellers does. He says he hates to git the feed an' wash the dishes orfly, 'nd girls likes ter do it best of anything."
I put "teacher" where he put "lady" and I put in something of my own when I could think of it and I changed some words. I put "dress" in place of "mood." I didn't know just what a "mood" was but I s'posed it was something to wear. I didn't s'pose you'd know the difference. I don't see how you found out it wasn't all mine. You must be awful clever, teacher.
But Glen was spared from making an answer, for Henry Henry stood forth and spoke. "He didn't do it, Mr. Newton. It was me," confessed Chick-chick, more convincing than grammatical. "Goosey was in it with me. When Matt turned us down yesterday we thought we'd give him something to dig for. Never dreamed he'd make big blow 'bout it. Just s'posed be little joke all t' himself.
I s'posed of course you had. Why didn't you?" He looked at her in surprise. "Go to sea?" he repeated. "Go to SEA? How could I? Didn't I promise you I'd never go to sea again?" "Was that the reason?" "Sartin. What else?" She did not answer. There was an odd expression on her face. He turned to go. "Well, good-by," he said. "Good-by. Er Seth." "Yes; what is it?"
"Yes, Miss Elsie; but ain't you gwine along? I s'posed you was." "No, John," she answered faintly, leaning against the wall for support; "but where is papa going?" "Up North, Miss Elsie; dunno no more 'bout it; better ask Massa Horace hisself," replied the servant, looking compassionately at her pale face, and eyes brimful of tears. Mr.
She should like to see what it was, and also what full dress meant, though she s'posed it was pilin' on all the clothes you had so as to make a show; but if she wore her black silk gown with her best bunnet and shawl, she guessed that would be dress enough for her. This settled, Aunt Betsy began to devise the best means of getting off with the least opposition.
With most of us when we take an uncertain step, the farther we get from it the more sure we become that it was an unwise one, and it was so with Uncle Terry. "I s'posed I'd git skinned," he muttered to himself after he was well on his way home, "an' I reckon I have! That dum thief, like all the rest o' lawyers, knows a farmer at sight, an' when he ketches one he takes his hay!
And I wondered that President Arthur, who I had always heard was a perfect gentleman, should come to have a room called like that, but s'posed it was there when he went. I don't believe he'd countenance any thing of the kind. I was jest a thinkin' this when the hired man come back, and said, "The President would receive me." "Wall," says I calmly, "I am ready to be received."
He s'posed some un come in at that theer door and give it him; but he was so much taken up with Dick's visit that he could hardly think of self, and when they came away Mr Marston had learned comparatively nothing, the big fellow shouting after Dick: "I've got a tush for you, lad, when I get down to the dreern again one I digged out, and you shall hev it."
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