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Updated: June 12, 2025
Life was an enjoyable game, inanimate objects talked to him, every enterprise was tinted imaginary colors, and he delighted in pretense welcome traits to Rouletta, whose childhood had been starved. "What is my new s'prise?" she queried. But, without answering, 'Poleon rose and left the tent; he was back a moment later with a bundle in his hands.
"My name's Miller, Skiff Miller. I just thought I'd s'prise her." "You are on the right track then. Only you've come by the foot-path." Madge stood up to direct him, pointing up the canyon a quarter of a mile. "You see that blasted redwood? Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it." "Yes'm, thank you, ma'am," he said.
With this parting warning she flew back into the front room and announced, "Dinner is ready, folkses! Faith, tell them where to sit; and say, you all better eat fast, 'cause Gail says there is a big s'prise coming."
He came tearing across the meadow, followed by Grandpa. "There there you're all right," said Jimmie, as he pulled the little boy out in a jiffy. "Don't cry so, Brother, you're only frightened. How'd it happen?" "The wheel stopped!" sobbed Sunny Boy. "An' I tried to fix it. I was going to s'prise Grandpa." "So you did," admitted Jimmie, while Bruce circled around them, barking madly.
Toomey looked on anxiously while he produced the contents of his pocket. "Sorry, sir, but it isn't enough," said the waiter, after counting the notes he tossed upon the plate. Toomey found the discovery amusing. "You s'prise me," he chuckled. "Sorry, sir, but " the waiter persisted. With a swift transition of mood Toomey demanded haughtily: "Gue'sh you don' know who I am?" "No, sir."
Suddenly a wild hoot of derision rent the air; the echoes answered, and all the ravine was filled with the jeering clamor. "The wust luck in the worl'!" plained poor Rufe, as the ill-omened cry rose again and again. "'Tain't goin' ter s'prise me none now, ef I gits my neck bruk along o' this resky foolishness in this cur'ous place whar owELS watch from the lookout ez dead men hev lef'."
"I des wanted to s'prise you a little, Marthy," he said. She was too happy to answer and, pressing his arm very tightly, she walked out among her congratulating friends, and between her husband and the Rev. Silas Todbury went proudly home to her Christmas dinner. Three It took something just short of a revolution to wake up the sleepy little town of Miltonville.
Tony's father, though, was a passenger, and he wanted to come to America, and so he got aboard the 'White Shield' and came here, right where Tony was; and, wasn't that funny?" "I should think it was." "He and Tony were real glad to see one another. Juggie called it, aunty, 'a second s'prise." The "s'prises," though, were not all over.
"My name's Miller, Skiff Miller. I just thought I'd s'prise her." "You are on the right track then. Only you've come by the footpath." Madge stood up to direct him, pointing up the canyon a quarter of a mile. "You see that blasted redwood! Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it." "Yes'm, thank you, ma'am," he said.
Don't you think they will be ripe enough before that?" "Don't look as if they would," Mike replied firmly. "And green melons won't sell well. Besides, the longer they grow, the bigger they will be." "Then I suppose I must wait; but don't you tell the girls. I want to s'prise them if we can go, for they don't think we can."
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