Let's s'pose a case.

They a'n't no harm in s'posin' a case, you know.

I've knowed boys who'd throw a rock at a fence-rail and hit a stump, and then say, 'S'posin' they was a woodpecker on that air stump, wouldn't I a keeled him over ?' You can s'pose a case and make a woodpecker wherever you want to.

Well, s'posin' they was a inquisition or somethin' of the kind from the guv'nor of the State of ole Kaintuck to the guv'nor of the State of Injeanny?
And s'posin' that the dokyment got lodged in this 'ere identical county?
And s'posin' it called fer the body of one Thomas A.Parkins, a_li_as J.W.

'Umphreys?
And s'posin' it speecified as to sartain and sundry crimes committed in Paduky and all along the shore, fer all I know?
Now, s'posin' all of them air things, what _would_ Clark township do to console itself when that toonful v'ice and them air blazin' watch-seals had set in ignominy for ever and ever?
Selah! Good-night, and don't you breathe a word to a livin' soul, nur a dead one, 'bout what I been a-sayin'.