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"Indeed, he wur; but say, Jim, what do yo' calcerlate his pedigree wur?" "Why, he came from a family of kings and fighting men," answered Sedgwick. "Yes, I know; but I mean what breed war he? War he one of them ere Ethiopians?" said Jordan. "No, I think not," answered his friend.
I never liked her, not half so well as the one with yaller ha'r thet they called Helen. One wur bad on her own account; the other, as I calcerlate, wus bad jest because she hed er disposition to be entertainin' and agreeable. One wur naterally bad; t'other wur a lady by instinct but her edecation had been neglected."
"Say, Cap'en, hev ye took to nursin' that boy ez ye seems so fond of?" "Shut your jaw, or I'll shut it for you!" replied Black. "Is the boy your affair?" "He's the affair of all of us, I calcerlate, an' some of us wishes to know particler if he's signed or no." Black was smothered in anger, but he showed it only with that terrible growling of the voice and his horrid calmness.
"'Twon't do the young master any harm." "What is your name?" inquired Colonel Preston, turning now to our hero, as his son seemed to have no more to say. "Andy Burke." "Do you live here?" "I've just come to town, sir. My mother lives here." "Where does she live?" "I don't know, sir, just. He knows," pointing out John. "I calcerlate his mother lives in old Jake Barlow's house," said John.
"I'm all right; but I'll call out for some more of that soup of yours just now." They gave a great shout, and one of them said "You ken calcerlate ez you will be gettin' it all nice en' hot when you meet the old 'un in the mornin'"; and the crew roared with laughter at the sally, and disappeared one by one from the poop.
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