s'pec's

Updated: May 1, 2025

I s'pec's one growed out of t' other. He hath a passion for the real as well as the ideal, and in order to see a fire-engine, or Westminster Bridge, or a snow-storm, he will perspire you two hours at the pit's mouth. He could see them any day in the street, but it gives him wondrous joy to see them in their wrong places.

Israel Zangwill - Without Prejudice

Well, I'm glad you comed, an' I s'pec's I've tole you some things twiste, 'case of my memory. Good-by. "He accompanied me to the door, and shook hands with all the grace of a born gentleman. Then I left him, but have been haunted ever since by a picture of that old negro in his lonely cabin, jogging that empty cradle nights when he cannot sleep, and contrasting him with Col.

Mary Jane Holmes - The Cromptons