s'posing

"Yes, but s'posing you should fall," wailed Allee in sudden terror, for the water-pipe looked like a very frail support even for a child as small and light of foot as was Peace, and the corner with the projecting porch roof seemed so far away.

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

Just think how terrible you'd feel s'posing when St. Peter let you inside the Gates, he handed you just a plain, blank crown.

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

"Of course, -- s'posing you play something pretty."

Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown

Only -- s'posing we really had been your granddaughters, s'posing you had been our Grandpa Greenfield, I bet

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

Just s'posing you had to live in a mite of an ugly house without nice things to eat or wear and with no father or mother to take care of you, and a mortgage you couldn't pay, and an old skinflint of a man ready to slam you outdoors and gobble up the farm, furniture and everything, the minute the mortgage was due.

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

"Then s'posing we write more'n five to begin with."

Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown

Now there's my Lilac Lady, -- she had heaps of money, and a great, splendid house to live in, and Aunt Pen to take care of her; so even if she never could walk again, 'twasn't as bad as it would have been s'posing she was poor and didn't have anything of her own.

Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown

And say, s'posing we keep this endless chain plan a secret among our two selves.

Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown

"But s'posing I have really forgotten how to laugh and -- and whistle, and be nice?"

Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown

She says it isn't the music that counts, it's the words, but just s'posing we sang:

The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown