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"And our little Sim, he just loved that Muley cow, little Sim, he did," she mourned. "Say, Jim Bowles, do you heah me?" this with a sudden flirt of the sunbonnet in an agony of actual fear. "Why, Jim Bowles, do you know that ouah little Sim might be a-playin' out thah in front of ouah house, on to that railroad track, at this very minute? S'pose, s'posen along comes that thah railroad train!
He drew up an elbow length away from Mr. Rosen and sank his voice to an intimate half whisper. "Mist' Rosen, le's you an' me do a little s'posin'. Le's s'posen' you has a bar'l of vinegar or molasses or sumpin' which you wants delivered to a frien' in Memphis, Tennessee. Seems lak I has heared somewhars dat you already is got a frien' or two in Memphis, Tennessee? All right den!
Now, s'posen an old feller that don't know nothin' says somethin'?" said Kent, good-humoredly; for he, as is generally the case with those of his class, had a habit of depreciating his own sagacity and foresight, when he really knew how much superior it was to his companion's. "Don't know but what it would," he repeated.
"I want to see Captain Gary and I'm going to see him, too. I've got business with him d'ye understand?" "Well den," replied the porter insolently, "s'posen yo' find where he is yo'self." Ralph, without another word, marched straight to the clerk's desk. The Captain Talks With Ralph. Ralph's previous diffidence disappeared under the flush of anger aroused by the porter's words.
"'But, sez Dan, 'how kin I see her in de da'k? En s'posen I hits at her en misses her? Er s'posen I des woun's her, en she gits erway, w'at she gwine do ter me den?
"Polly ain't the kind of a feller to forget his chums, an' I'm going to stay here till he comes out, if it ain't till mornin'. S'posen you had a father that had got lost, an' you'd jest found him, wouldn't it be quite a while afore you'd think of such a lot of duffers as we be?"
"Miss Doc may be home by now," objected Keno, apprehensively. "Well, then, sneak up and see if she has gone off real mad." "S'posen she 'ain't?" Keno promptly hedged. "S'posen she seen me?" "You've got all out-doors to skedaddle in, I reckon." Keno, however, had many objections to any manner of venture with the wily Miss Dennihan.
The poor man meant it as a compliment; but Felicity, who knew Uncle Blair was an artist and had a poor opinion of such fry, looked indignant and retorted, indeed she wasn't! "Peter says there's any amount of raspberries back in the maple clearing," said Dan. "S'posen we all go after tea and pick some?" "I'd like to," sighed Felicity, "but we'd come home tired and with all the milking to do.
See here, Ned, I've got two tickets for the passage in my pocket, an' the room's been paid for by the man I told you about. Now we can keep in here till the boat stops, and then I guess we can give him the slip; but I hain't thought yet how we either of us can get home." "But s'posen he comes right up here to the door?" "He w6n't do that.
Every hour or two she would pop in into Aunt Abby's room with some strange query: "She got into the RIVER again, Aunt Abby, didn't she; the Jordan is a big one to tumble into, any how. S'posen she goes to hell, she'll be as black as I am. Wouldn't mistress be mad to see her a nigger!" and others of a similar stamp, not at all acceptable to the pious, sympathetic dame; but she could not evade them.
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