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The chief danger to your house isn't here, it's where the fire's between it and the wind!" His answer was a look of anguish. "Good God! my fran'. We come yondeh so quick we can! But foudre tonnerre! look that house here fill' with ba-bee'! What we goin' do? Those Sister' can't climb on roof with bocket' wateh.
When he turned it on again, Baby was saying, "Kukk-ina za zeeva." "No, Baby, Pappy Jack doesn't understand. We'll have to be awfully patient, and learn each other's language." "Pa-pee Jaaak!" Baby cried. "Ba-bee za-hinga; Pa-pee Jaak za zag ga he-izza!" "That yeeking is just the audible edge of their speech; bet we have a lot of transsonic tones in our voices, too."
You dunno dat lill' 'ouse where de Sister' keep dose orphelin' ba-bee'?-juz big-inning sinse 'bout two week' ago?-round de corner one square mo' down town 'alf square mo' nearer de swamp? Well, I thing 'f you pass yondeh you fine Pastropbon." Through smoke, under falling cinders, and by distracted and fleeing households I went. The moment I turned the second corner I espied the house.
"I think it don't worth while to leave it to our chillun, en't it?" "Ah!" said the husband, entirely to me, "daz de troub'! You see? we dawn't got some ba-bee'! Dat neveh arrive to her. God know' dass not de fault of us." "Yass," put in his partner, smiling to her needle, "the good God know' that verrie well." And the pair exchanged a look of dove-like fondness.
"Ah! Pastropbon, we got ba-bee' enough presently, en't it?" "Ole woman, nobody else ever strock dat lott'ree for such a prize like dat." The Entomologist An odd feature of New Orleans is the way homes of all ranks, in so many sections of it, are mingled. The easy, bright democracy of the thing is what one might fancy of ancient Greeks; only, here there is a general wooden frailty.
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