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All dis a place berry bad, and dat no a livin' ting what e see yonder. Do Massa Geral take poor nigger word, and not so dere affer e ghost." "Nay, Sambo, it is no ghost, but flesh and blood, for I saw it in the brig we were foul of just now, however be under no alarm.
On the threshold stood Affer, the telegraph operator, who thrust in a very dirty hand and a yellow envelope. "We don't deliver nights," he said, "but I thought she'd ought to have this one. I'm going home to wash up, and then I'll be back," he added, and left them staring at one another around the little lighted tree.
If dis child swim affer, he soon come up; and den wif de oar an' de help ob lilly Willy, he meet you more dan half-way, dat fo' sartin." "You think you can overtake her, Snowball?" "I be sartin ob dat ere. You tay here wif Lilly Lally. Keep by de chess and de cask boaf, for de latter am better dan de former. No fear, I soon bring de Cat'maran long dis way, once I get 'board o' her."
But he only said to his little friends with a smile, "You'd better go now and we'll have that story later." "Affer beckus?" suggested Mary Emmeline. "In the woods," added John Wesley. Mr. Hamlin nodded blandly. The children trotted to the door. It closed upon them and Miss Bird's parting admonition, loud enough for Mr. Hamlin to hear, "No more freedoms, no more intrudings, you hear."
He fotched de poor darkies out ob workin' all de time for nuffin for dem Sesh, and he know what he doin'. He goin' to let dem Sesh 'spect dat dey whip dem Yanks affer while, but he not let dem do it. He jes' coaxin' dem on till he git good men hold of de army, den dey all git smash up. Jes' like Genl Tom, de Laud save him for dat. Don't you see dat?
"By de wheeles ob Juggannaut coachee," cried the shikaree, who had been listening, and understood the figurative dialogue; "dat be da goodee plan. Dese stork go back Calcutt surely dey go back. Dey carry letter to Feringhee Sahibs Sahibs dey know we here in prison dey come d'liva we vey dey affer get de letter ha! ha! ha!"
"That's just it, Miss Fowler," explained Odell-Carney glibly. "You shee see, it was this way: we got him out on bail on condition he'd 'pear to-morrow morning 'fore the magistrate. Affer we'd got him out, he insisted on coming 'round here so's he could run away with you. That wassen a gennelmanly thing to do, affer we'd put up our money. We coul'n' afford have him runnin' away with you.
"Da whipp dem slaves what run away." "One day after de war was over and I come to Ohio, a man stop at mah house. I seem him and I know him too but I preten like I didn, so I say, 'I doan want ter buy nothin today' and he says 'Doan you know me? Den I laugh an say sho I remember the day you wuz goin to whip me, you run affer me and I run to de Mrs. and she wouldn let you whip me.
Only the post office had light she went in to look in her box. Affer was there at the telegraph window, and he accosted her. "Little boy's comin' to-night, is he?" he said, as one of the sponsors for that arrival. "I'm on my way to the train now," Mary answered, and noted the Christmas notice with its soiled and dog-eared list still hanging on the wall.
"Here Aunt Martha had to come in; we could not stop her. She said: "'Yes, sah; dat gal takes kear of Marsa Henry. If it not done been for her he done starved to deff, he would. Dem Sesh, dey be affer dis fambly. Dey done kill mos' all, and am still affer you. I tells you, dey am; I knows dem, I do. Marsa Henry, you mus' stay home wid de folks, you mus'. "At this my wife became much distressed.
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