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"What were you doing out there at that time of night?" "Nuffin, sar." "Did you see the robbers come into the house?" "Yes, sar; I done seed 'em come in." "Then what did you do?" "I jest went 'round out dar." "And did you see those other masked men, who came in and rescued us from the power of the robbers?" "Yes, sar, I seed dem too," replied Julius, becoming interested.
Uncle forgets that he has had me taught in United States history. I wish some of them would just march by this out-of-the-way place, for I would like to see for myself what they are like." "Dar, dar, Miss Lou, you gittin' too bumptious. You like de fus' woman who want ter know too much." "No," said the girl, her blue eyes becoming dark and earnest, "I want to know what's true, what's right.
"Oh, France," cried Tidy in delight, "whar was you? Missus set me lookin' for yer, and she said she'd whip all the skin off me, if I didn't find yer. Whar's you been?" "Laws, you nummy, ye don't specs now I's gwine to let all dis yer plantation know dat secret. Ho, ho, ho! If I telled, I couldn't go dar 'gin no way. I's comed here for my dinner, caus specs dis chile can't starve nohow.
That was the first time Dab had heard his city acquaintance make a confession of inability, and he could see a more than usually thoughtful expression on his face. The coolness and skill of Dick Lee, in his hour of disaster, had not been thrown away upon him. "If I had my clothes off," said Ford, "I believe I'd try that on." "Dab Kinzer, you's de bes' feller dar is.
Uncle Billy, the stake-holder, in handing the money over to the Italian, remarked: "Wal, it don't look so much ag'in nachur now, after all." "Breens uppa dar" smiled the Italian as he put ten eagles into Archie B.'s hand. All of which made Archie B. vain, for the crowd now cheered him as they had jeered before. "Come, let's go, Ozzie B.," he said.
One of the men, after seeing his wife and numerous family of children safely on board the boat, went up to Frank with a beaming face, and said, "Misto Frank, I'se bought a ok. Dar he is hitched into dat ar kyart, an' oh! he do plough splendid!"
"I'm in terrible perplexity," he said, "for there is so much truth in your words. How can I escape the consequences of my own acts? Think how Miss Ainsley stood by me in my unconsciousness! When I revived " "Dar now, Marse Clancy, you'se been fooled. She stood by hersef. De fac am, she didn't stan 'tall, but run like a deer, hollerin fer all she's wuth.
"So dar wuz sumfin awful 'bout to happen, an' happenin'," the old woman laughed. "But I done put de squee-gee on dat! I hyeerd de fracas, an' hyeerd what he uz sayin', an' knowed jest 'bout how-cum 'twuz." "Oh, Aunt Timmie," the girl impulsively cried, "if everyone had your good heart!" "Mah heart ain' nuthin' to brag on, chile.
"Yes she'd been gone a good while. You see, me and Big Mose am generally de last niggers dat am up, specially myself. I goes around for to see if de t'ings am all right about de house. Wal, me and Mose had been around to see if eberyt'ing was right, and was coming back from de barn and got purty near de house, when Mose whispers, 'Cato, I see'd a man crawling on de ground back dar.
The aged negro woman stumbled out upon the balcony and gazed after the departing figure still moaning softly to herself and shaking her head in anguish. "Fo'ebber and ebber," she repeated in a wailing tone. Below a colored boy gazed at her in wonderment. "What debblement am she up to now?" he said to a girl seated in a doorway. "When de old witch am like dat " "Come in dar, yo' black imp!"
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