Capt. G. Wal, I swan to man!
Mrs. G. Why! Mary, where’d he git a chance to ask yer?
Mary. I saw him first, mother, as I told you, last fall, when I went down to the wharf with the children, chipping. You know you didn’t want them to go alone. He said then he should come back in the spring, and hoped he’d see me again.
Will. And I have seen her several times; and the other day I told her about the steamboat, and she ’lowed she was willing to go with me.
Mrs. G. I thought she was ’mazin’ fond o’ chippin’ all to onct.
Mary. I guess you mean that ‘I promised,’ don’t you, William?
Will. Yes, you promised, and I told father; and he said he guessed it was all right. He’d known o’ Captain Gandy quite a spell. The Nancy Paige lay at the wharf alongside the Betsey Ludgitt once, down to Castine.
J. Q. A. (trying to mend a whip-lash). By darn!
L. J. My Thunday-thkool teacher theth you muthn’t thay by darn; but if you mutht thay by anything, you can thay by jollerth (jollers).
J. Q. A. I saw the skipper’s son kiss Mary, and she kissed him just as he give me a log o’ wood. (Singing derisively.) Kissin’ the fellers, kissin’ the fellers!