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Updated: June 13, 2025
What was Daniel in the Lions' Den, compared with Herr Alexander in the same? Not, as the prophet is pictured, in the farthest corner from the lions, and manifestly saying to himself: "If I was only out of this!" But with his head right smack dab in the lion's mouth. Right in it. Yes, sir. "S' Posin'!" we gasped, all goggle-eyed, "jist s'posin' that there lion was to shut his mouth! Ga-ash!"
Bill, by all these signs and tokens, was limbering up his keen old range-bred wits for action. "Well, I'll tell yuh. The way to get at the thing is to figger out why you'd do it, s'posin' you was in their place.
He glanced through the kitchen door at the barometer on the wall in the outer room. "We've climbed near a mile since before breakfast," he remarked. Rebecca paused before hanging up the soap-shaker. "Look here, Mr. Droop," she said, anxiously, "we are mos' too high a'ready, I think. S'posin' we was to fall down. Where do you s'pose we'd be?"
'Fore they come in with their meat we'll be loaded; that is, s'posin' they show up in time." The boatswain grinned in a knowing, mirthless way, that his assistants seemed to understand, for they responded in kind. The main hatch was then opened and an iron grating substituted. Between the main hold and the cabin was a strong bulkhead with a double door, strongly barred and padlocked.
"I ain't been so thirsty sence I come round the Horn, in '50, an' we run short of water. Somebody'll get hurt ef thar' ain't no bitters on the old concern they will, or my name ain't Perkins." "Don't count yer chickings 'fore they're hetched, Perky," said one of the party, as he adjusted his domino under the rim of his hat. "'S'posin' ther' shud be too many for us?"
"I tell ye she ain't that kind." "S'posin'," continued Bud, refilling the lad's glass, "s'posin' I could show 'em to ye in a wood eh? Ah! What she want t' meet him in a wood for, anyway nice an' quiet, eh?" "Say now, Bud, I I ain't goin' t' listen t' no more!" said Spike, rising and clutching at the table, "I I'm goin' home!"
"Are you an Orangeman too, sonny?" I asked the half-caste aside; for the young fellow had a bunged eye, and a flake of skin off his cheek-bone. "No, by Cripes!" responded my countryman emphatically. "Not me. He don't give a dam, s'posin' a feller's soul gits bashed out. Best sight I seen for many a day was seein' him gittin' kicked.
"I wish I had that boy under my care," he went on. "S'posin' you had, sah?" "I'd teach him his place. Why should he be reared as a gentleman he, a poor waif of the sea? Probably he is the son of some low mechanic, perhaps of a Northern mudsill, and my aunt think of it, my aunt must bring him up as a Southern gentleman!" The young man leaped up and began to pace the boathouse floor nervously.
"No, it didn't, neither," Ann Eliza retorted. "I got it dirt cheap, if you want to know. And I paid for it out of a little extra work I did the other night on the machine for Mrs. Hawkins." "The baby-waists?" "Yes." "There, I knew it! You swore to me you'd buy a new pair of shoes with that money." "Well, and s'posin' I didn't want 'em what then?
So I gathered up the lines an' took out the whip, an' made all the motions to go, an' then I kind o' stopped an' says, 'I don't want you to go agin your princ'ples nor the law an' gosp'l on my account, but the' can't be no harm in s'posin' a case, can the'? No, he allowed that s'posin' wa'n't jest the same as doin'. 'Wa'al, says I, 'now s'posin' I'd come up here yestidy as I have to-day, an' looked your hoss over, an' said to you, "What price do you put on him?" what do you s'pose you'd 'a' said?
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