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They had dinner with us at the schoolmaster's, but I had little chance to talk with them. Aunt Deel went up to my room with me and slyly gave me some fresh cookies wrapped in a piece of newspaper which she carried in a little basket bought from the Indians. "Here's somethin' else," she said. "I was keepin' 'em for Chris'mas ayes! but it's so cold I guess ye better have 'em now ayes!"
And when my grandfather and the ladies and gentlemen, his guests, came down the curving stairs, there were the broadly smiling servants drawn up in the wide hall, all who could gather there, and the rest on the lawn outside, to wish "Merry Chris'mas" to "de quality."
I'm blamed if de Kid ain't gone an' hung up his sock fer Chris'mas!" The checkers dropped, and the pencil ceased scratching on the slate, in breathless suspense. "Come up an' see," said Tom, briefly, and led the way. The whole band followed on tiptoe. At the foot of the stairs their leader halted. "Yer don't make no noise," he said, with a menacing gesture.
"Den all de week will be as gay As am de Chris'mas time; We'll dance all night and all de day, And make de banjo chime And make de banjo chime, I tink, And pass de time away, Wid 'nuf to eat and nuf to drink, And not a bit to pay! So shut your mouf as close as deafh, And all you niggas hole your breafh, And make de banjo chime."
"CARIBOU!" Rouletta's eyes were bright with curiosity and an emotion far more material. "Where in the world ?" "Some hinjun hunter mak' beeg kill. I got more s'prise as dat, too. By golly! Dis goin' be regular Chris'mas for you." Rouletta stirred. There was stubborn defiance in her tone when she said: "I'm going to get up and I'm going outdoors clothes or no clothes.
I won' spoil my appetide for that tenderloin. Hol' on yourself an' take supper wis me. No? That fellah be 'long 'bout Chris'mas if he don' git los'! He always behin', pig or no pig!" Bonny strolled away collecting fire-wood. Presently he called back, pointing dramatically with his small-toed boot. "Who's been coyotin' round here?"
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