“I’ve often heard of that Bay of State,” said Benjamin, “but can’t say that I’ve ever been in it, nor do I know exactly whereaway it is that it lays; but I suppose there is good anchorage in it, and that it’s no bad place for the taking of ling; but for size it can’t be so much as a yawl to a sloop of war compared with the Bay of Biscay, or, mayhap, Torbay.
“Look you, Mistress Pitty—Patty Prettybones, mayhap I’m some such matter as a bear, as they will find who come to grapple with me; but dam’me if I’m a monkey— a thing that chatters without knowing a word of what it says—a parrot; that will hold a dialogue, for what an honest man knows, in a dozen languages; mayhap in the Bay of State lingo; mayhap in Greek or High Dutch.
"
Mayhap; if they are there," he said, "ye shall have as many as ye can take hence--if indeed ye would leave me, my brothers."
"Nay," muttered Little John (for he had heard so much upon this score that he was sore upon the point), "nay, truly, mayhap I have more flesh upon my joints than I once had, yet, flesh or no flesh, I doubt not that I could still hold my place and footing upon a narrow bridge against e'er a yeoman in Sherwood, or Nottinghamshire, for the matter of that, even though he had no more fat about his bones than thou hast, good master."
Mayhap I may chance to catch a sight of the dainty brown darlings thus early in the morn." For there was nothing he loved better than to look upon a tripping herd of deer, even when he could not tickle their ribs with a clothyard shaft.
"Ne'er heed me, Seth," said Wiry Ben, "y' are a down-right good- hearted chap, panels or no panels; an' ye donna set up your bristles at every bit o' fun, like some o' your kin, as is
mayhap cliverer."
I think,
mayhap, a little of it does me more good than so much at once."
"Or
mayhap they have come to the mouth of the gorge, and are marshalling their ranks.
But come aboard, and
mayhap he'll believe you, if he won't me; and so I'll get out of this dirty scrape.
It was a beam with bright hues of satisfaction, one of like an older sibling dotting on the young one, and
mayhap, that smile as if to say, 'we've got something here.'
The section titled 'Flight' begins with John Zugshwert's quote, 'The hummingbird is nature's helicopter.' Observing the diminutive birds in the garden bears out that notions as birds dart, flit, fly backwards, hover, lift off straight up or
mayhap even upside down.
City Hall was the only place big enough,
mayhap. And who paid for all those lights and flowers, and the sound system?
Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate,
Mayhap though canst not ripen without frost!
Mayhap my ships that outward went And never came to me again
Mayhap my winged hours misspent And dreams and fancies passion pent Have found some port of sweet content In Islands of the Sun Williamson donated her shells to the Los Angeles Museum of History Science and Art in 1912.
Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook, or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or
mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant.
