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The "Rads" had given a barbecue down in Blackland, just two days before the visit of Jeff-Jack and those others to Widewood and what did she reckon! Cornelius Leggett had there made a speech, declaring that he was at the bottom of a patriotic project to open a free white school in Suez, and "bu'st Rosemont wide open." "Judge March," said the wife, affectionately, "I wonder why Mr.
Haven't I promised to take it in hand? and I'll investigate this matter to the bottom. I'll write to the Secretary of the General Post-Office. I'll go down to St. Martin's-le-Grand and see him myself, and if he don't clear it up I'll write letters to the Times until I bu'st up the British Post-Office altogether; so make your mind easy, Fred, else I'll forsake you and go right away back to Africa."
"No," she said, with sudden gravity; "if we drink'd it all we'd all bu'st right off. I pounds it, Missis Lilly sells it, an' massa pockets de money." "Do you pound much?" asked Hester, in a tone of sympathy. "Oh! housefuls," said Sally, opening her eyes wide. "'Gin at daylight work till dark, 'cept when doin' oder t'ings. De Moors drink it. Awrful drinkers am de Moors.
"No, me won't," cried Poopy, with great passion, while tears sprang from her large eyes, and coursed over her sable cheeks. "Me will bu'st dem ropes." "More likely to do that to yourself if you go on like that," returned Corrie. The only bother about it is that these rascally savages have dropt me beside a pool of half soft mud that I can't help sticking my head into if I try to move."
Parker said as they turned toward the house. "Listen at Parker, he's one of them, too," Chuck continued; "this is his day to be a sweetheart to the widow!" "I'd rather have Skinny's job," Bert said with a snicker, "I'd be afraid of Ophelia " "Why?" "She acts too gentle to start with" " "Give her time," Charley suggested, "she'll bu'st loose when she gets better acquainted!"
"Mr Brooke," he said, with the slow deliberate air of the man who forms his opinions on solid grounds, "there's goin' to be a bu'st up o' the elements afore long, as sure as my name's Hunky." "That's the very thing I want to talk about with you, Ben, for I meditate a long journey immediately. Come, walk with me."
"My only chance will be to wait till the bear is upon me, shove my gun into his mouth, and pull the trigger when the muzzle is well down his throat." "That would be throttling a bear indeed," said Victor, with a laugh, as he threw a fresh log on the fire. "What say you, Rollin?" "It vould bu'st de gun," replied the half-breed, whose mind, just then, was steeped in tobacco smoke.
If you succeed I'll give batteries and boilers full credit, but if you fail I'll not forget to remind you that I said it would all bu'st up in course of time." With note-book and pencil in hand Robin went down the very next day to the works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, where the great cable was being made.
She was all dressed in black; and her face looked so delicate, I expected before six months was over to see a plate of glass over it, and a Bible and a bunch of flowers layin' on the lid of the well, I don't like to talk about it; for when she first come, and said her mother was dead, and she was alone in the world, except one sister out West, and unlocked her trunk and showed me her things, and took out her little purse and showed me her money, and said that was all the property she had in the world but her courage and her education, and would I take her and keep her till she could get some scholars, I couldn't say not one word, but jest went up to her and kissed her and bu'st out a-cryin' so as I never cried since I buried the last of my five children that lays in the buryin'-ground with their father, and a place for one more grown person betwixt him and the shortest of them five graves, where my baby is waitin' for its mother.
"The p'leece," he said, "was useless for real work; they was on'y fit to badger boys an' old women." "But what can we do?" demanded Bob anxiously, for he felt that time was precious. "You an' I ain't fit to bu'st in the door; an' if we was, Dick would be ready for us. If we're to floor him he must be took by surprise." "Let's go an' peep," suggested the smaller warrior.
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