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"It was the hippopotamus, I think; he was lucky." "Perhaps he has a mole, Hugh," I said. We'll look, said Hugh. "I 'spect he has." The proverbial difficulty of finding a needle in a haystack seemed child's play compared to that of finding a mole on a hippopotamus.
But what could I do wid my wine ef we didn't drink it?" "Let it turn to vinegar, and sign the temperance pledge," replied Robert. "I don't keer 'bout it myself, but I don't 'spect John would be willin' ter let it go, 'cause he likes it a heap." "Then you must give it up for his sake and Job's," said Robert. "They may learn to like it too well."
When I got home one night the fire was out, and she was just laying acrost the hearth; the room was awful cold, and there warn't no food neither I 'spect that helped it. I'd bin away three or four days, and the food give out quicker than I thought, and the firin'. I arst a doctor here wot it was, and he said it was sincough or sumthin'." "Syncope?" suggested Katrine.
Maria busied herself with her fish for a minute, turning and washing it; then without looking up from her work she said in a lowered tone, " 'Spect de overseer, he don't hab no favour to such ways and meetin's." "But, with me?" I said; "and with aunt Gary's leave?" "S'pose he like to fix t'ings his own way," said Maria. "Does he forbid them to come?" I asked.
"Look here, Rosie," Dick began when she paused, with an introspective look which told her that he had not heard a word she said, "there's something I want you to do for me." "It won't be the first time," she replied pertly. "I 'spect I'll like to do it. But if it's anything important, better begin now, for some of my own specially collected sheep will be drifting in to tea." "Sheep at tea!
West, I 'spose, o' course, you interjuced yerself? Bein' a preacher, you don't hev to stan' on ceremony like the rest of mankind. You 'ain't? Well, let me hev the pleasure of interjucin' our new school-teacher, Miss Margaret Earle. I 'spect you two 'll be awful chummy right at the start, both bein' from the East that way, an' both hevin' ben to college."
Younker, "I'm a considerable older woman nor you ar that is, I mean to say, I'm a much older individule and I 'spect I've had in my time some lettle experience in matters that you don't know nothing about; and so you musn't go to thinking hard o' me, ef I give you a lettle advice, and tell you to stay right whar you ar, and not stir a single step away for three weeks; 'cause ef you do, your wound may get rupturous agin, and in some lone place jest carry you right straight off into the shader o' the valley of death as our good old Rev.
It had probably struck a bone, but had not broken it, and this had stunned him. "I was so ugly before that Ellenory wouldn't more than half look at me," Jimmy mused, "an' now, I 'spect, she'll never kiss that air cheek." He then bandaged his cheek roughly, sitting up, and took a survey of the scenery.
"Word is come to me, fur one thing, that this yere smart-ellicky gang out at the Belt Line Park is aimin' to try to cut some of the groun' frum under yore feet. I regrets to hear it." "'Tain't them so much," said Æsop. "We couldn't 'spect to go 'long havin' a nomopoly furever. Sooner or late they wuz bound to be opposition arisin' up.
"I I guess so, old fellow." "Who are you making that bouquet for, Uncle Harry?" asked Budge. "For a lady for Miss Mayton that lady that saw us all muddy yesterday afternoon," said I. "Oh, I like her," said Budge. "She looks so nice and pretty just like a cake just as if she was good to eat Oh, I just love her, don't YOU?" "Well, I respect her very highly, Budge." "'Spect? What does 'spect mean?"
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