'Twouldn't have done no great harm if I had dropped it.

I could pick it up again, couldn't I ?" "You could, but I doubt if you would.

You might have ate it, you're so absent-minded.

Nervous! YOU nervous! What do you think of me?
Mrs.
Barnes," turning to Thankful and once more resuming the "company" manner, "you'll excuse our bein' a little upset.

You see, when my brother came home and said he'd seen lights movin' around in the old Barnes' house, he frightened us all pretty near to death.