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The half-breed skipper stood next to me, and I snum if you couldn't see him shrivel up like one of them things they call a sensitive plant. "The tableau lasted while a feller might count five; then things happened. Hammond and me dodged around the deckhouse; the Malays broke and run, one up the main rigging, two down the fo'castle hatch and one out on the jib-boom.
If my hat wa'n't sloshin' around thirty mile astern, I snum if I wouldn't take it off to you this minute! "'Nat, stammers Zach, 'I must say I "Nat snapped him shut like a tobacco box. 'You needn't, says he. 'But I'll say this to you, Zach Foster. When I undertake to handle a vessel I handle her best I know how, and the fact that I don't own her makes no difference to me.
I wish some chapters to finish themselfs vite, that I send them to Pologne and know the end. I cannot translate this, no one of dictionnaires makes me the words, and I think it is jargon de prison, this little period. Behold: Mopy, is that your snum? Nubble your dad and gully the dog, &c.
The captains had long ago given up this beloved dish, because, although each had tried his hand at preparing it, none had wholly succeeded, and the caustic criticisms of the other two had prevented further trials. But Mrs. Snow's baked beans were a triumph. So, also, was the brown bread. "I snum," exclaimed Captain Perez, "if I don't b'lieve I'd sooner have these beans than turkey.
"I snum if you ain't a stranger! We'll have a reel movin' meetin' to-night because Mr. Perley's here, and he says he feels the sperrit a-workin'. Set right down there by the what-not. Luther," to her oldest but three, "give Cap'n Hedge your chair. You can set on the cricket. Yes, you can! Don't answer back!"
I discovered that she had been a farmer's daughter in New England, and I began to suspect that it relieved her to drop into New England farm talk, like "I snum!" and "Hooraw's nest." I never saw a hooraw's nest, but she seemed to think it a very disorderly place. "This ain't the last time, Jacob," said she, as she climbed into Jim Boyd's buggy that Henderson L. had borrowed.
Such a pretty and wistful little armful of a boy he was certain had never been seen before in all the world. "I snum! I certainly snum!" he said again. "I'll have to take you right straight down to the boys!" At this the little fellow looked at him appealingly. His lip began to tremble. "No-body wants me," he said, in baby accents, "no-body wants me anywhere."
An' I snum! there's Marty, too. He's workin' in his mother's garden reg'lar. I seen him.
I snum, if it didn't look as if the Oriental man knew his job after all. "I spoke to the stable hand about it. "'Look here, says I, 'is this business betwixt that pool player and our Effie serious? "He laughed. 'Serious enough, I guess, he says. 'They're goin' to be married pretty soon, I hear. It's all 'cordin' to the law and the prophets.
"No," he sighed. "If Brocky had been more settled he'd ha' been better off I snum he would! A piece o' land right here back o' Polktown or a venture in a store, if so be he must trade would ha' been safer for him than a slather o' mines down there among them Mexicaners." "Don't talk so don't talk so, Jason!" sniffed Aunt Almira. "Wal it's a fac'," her husband said vigorously.
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