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"I s'ze to myself," continued Zene, ignoring this absurd supposition, "'now, if they puts the horses in their stable, they means to keep the wagon too, and make way with me so no one will ever know it. But, I s'ze, 'if they tries to lead the horses off somewhere for to hide 'em, then that's all they want, and they'll pretend in the morning to have lost stock themselves."
"'No, marm, says he. "'I s'ze to myself, says Ant Red, 'here is this polite company, and the snake-feeders don't touch nothin, and everybedy knows Miss Katydid lives on nothin' but rose-leaf butter, and the bugs and beetles will hardly take enough, to keep 'em alive. 'And I s'ze to myself, says Ant Red, 'here's this big apple walkin' off with nobody but Ant Black to move it.
"That's how the woman 'peared to me. She was tousled, and looked wild out of her eyes. The man says, says he, 'What do you want? I s'ze, 'Can I git a bite here?" Robert had frequently explained to Zene the utter nonsense of this abbreviation, "I s'ze," but Zene invariably returned to it, perhaps dimly reasoning that he had a right to the dignity of third person when repeating what he had said.
I s'ze to myself, 'Nows the time to be up and ready. So I was puttin' on the clothes I'd took off, and right there on the bed, like it had been there all the time, was two great big eyes turnin' from green to red, and flame comin' out of them like it does out of coals when the wind blows." "Was it a cat?" whispered Robert Day, hoping since Zene was safe, that it was not.
If he said of another man, "says he," why could he not remark of himself, "I says he?" He considered it not only correct, but ornamental. "The man says, says he, 'We don't keep foot-pads. And I s'ze for I was mad 'I ain't no more a foot-pad than you are, I s'ze.
'I've got a team and a wagon out here, I s'ze, 'and pervisions too, but I've got the means to pay for a warm bite, I s'ze, 'and if you can't accommodate me, I s'pose there's other neighbors that can." "You shouldn't told him you had money and things!" exclaimed Robert, bulging his eyes. "I see that, soon's I done it," returned Zene, shaking a line over the near horse.
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