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You see " He did not finish his sentence. The expression upon Jed's face caused him to pause. Mr. Winslow's mouth and eyes were opening wider and wider. "Sho!" muttered Jed. "Sho, now! . . . 'Tain't possible that . . . I snum if . . . Sho!" "Well, what is it?" demanded both officers, practically in concert. Jed did not reply.
In desperation he began to learn the carpenter's trade and, because he liked to handle tools, did pretty well at it. But he continued to be "queer" and his absent-minded dreaminess was in evidence even then. "I snum I don't know what to make of him," declared Mr. Abijah Mullett, who was the youth's "boss." "Never know just what he's goin' to do or just what he's goin' to say.
The next moment the three "mutineers" were over the side and running as fast as their alcoholic condition would permit down the wharf. "Well, by George!" exclaimed Pearson. Captain Elisha seemed to be coming out of a dream. He stood still, drew his hand across his forehead, and then began to laugh. "Well!" he stammered. "Well, I snum! I I Mr. Pearson, I wonder what on earth you must think of me.
Sallie paused, carving-knife in hand, looking at him with frank curiosity. "Well, I snum! You ain't the new minister either, now, are you?" The stranger made no answer. He had thrown himself into the chair, as if tired. Suddenly he sat up and looked around alertly, then at Sallie, who was returning his gaze with interest. "Where are you from, anyway?" she inquired.
Grandma Thorndyke had not heard me coming, and gave way to her feelings as she looked at her handiwork in her manner of talking to herself. "That's more like a human habitation!" she ejaculated, standing with her hands on her hips. "I snum! It looked like a hooraw's nest!" "It looks a lot better," I agreed.
We see we weren't invited to the family reunion, so we went out and shut the door. But we did pity Peter; I snum if we didn't! It was most an hour afore Brown come out of that room. When he did he took Jonadab and me by the arm and led us out back of the barn. "Fellers," he says, sad and mournful, "that that plaster cast in a crazy-quilt," he says, referring to Montague, "is a cousin of mine.
"That's MY terbacker, if you want to know," observed Captain Perez. "I've got yours, Eri. Here 'tis." "Well, then, where IS mine?" said Captain Jerry somewhat snappishly. "Bet a dollar you've got it in your pocket," said Captain Eri. "Bet ten dollars I ain't! I ain't quite a fool yit, Eri Hedge. I guess I know well, I snum!
Look pleased when she said it?" "She cried." "Comfort her some." "I She she loves me, Mr. Baines." "Well, I snum! Kind of disobedient to love you, hain't it? Knows her father 'd be set ag'in' it?" "Yes, but she can't help that." "Why?" "You why, you fall in love! You don't do it on purpose, Mr. Baines. It just comes to you." "From where?" said Scattergood, abruptly. The young minister stared.
"I I I snum if I don't think you BE crazy, same as some folks say you are! What in the nation has has your name got to do with a deef man and the Doxology?" "Eh? . . . Oh, nothin'." "Then what did you bust loose and tell me about 'em for? They wan't any of MY business, was they?" "No-o. That's why I spoke of 'em." "What? You spoke of 'em 'cause they wan't any of my business?"
I bet he'll be mad down to his moccasins when he finds out the Old Lady's been off all day." Uncle Abner yawned and stretched his sun-baked form with weary rectitude. Then he looked with pleased dismay into the face of his silver watch. "Now, I snum! Here she's two-thirty! Don't it beat all how time flits by, as it were, when you meet a good conversationalist and get started on various topics!
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