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Sarah had "been and gone and done stuck her feet in de fire for to warm 'em, one time when dey was mighty cold, and she burn her shoes. Learn her better next time." "But does she work every day in the field with her feet only half covered?" I asked. "Laws! she don't care," said Maria. "'Taint no use give dem darkies not'ng; dey not know how to keep um."
At this Hans grew suspicious, and at length a sickly grin overspread his features. "I know you, Tom Rofer," he said. "Dot vos von of dem fish stories, ain't it alretty?" "No, it's a jibberjacker story, Hans." "It vos a jibjacker fish story den annahow. You can't fool me some more. I vos too schmart for dot alretty. Ven I go py der academy I git mine ear teeths cut, hey?"
Brandelaar continued to stare in front of him at the floor. "The lady would go in spite of the bad weather. And she would not be satisfied till I had persuaded my friend Van dem Bosch to take her in his cutter to Dover?" "This was last night?" "Yes last night." "And what more?" persisted Heideck. "He came back at noon to-day. They had a misfortune on the way." Heideck's frame shook convulsively.
I done tol' him you might be back to-day an' den ag'in you mightn't 'pended on de way de ducks was flyin'. Spec' he'll be roun' ag'in purty soon seemed ter hab sumpin' on his min'. I'll tu'n de knob, sah. Yere git down, you imp o' darkness, you Floe! you Dandy! Drat dem dogs!
"Ah heah dat yeh noise, yass, sah. Ah ain't got none of dem yamalgamations what heahs what ain't." He was so big and black and primitive, and his great ears spread so far out from his head, that he reminded me of some wild beast. Certainly he had a wild beast's keen ears. But now Blodgett raised his hand. "Here's wind," he said.
Dis child know nothing bout dem disgreable duties. All we wants, bredren, is to pick out de best man. How is we to do dat? Bredren, best way is to follow de hair. Mr. McGee has hair like good nigger. Bredren, let us follow our hair." The result was McGee was adopted unanimously. In 1865 a volume of Mr. McGee's speeches was published by Chapman & Hall.
"You can lay a stack of blues on dat," here spoke up the individual referred to as "Donovan." "Dose guys has got more pepper in dem dan a Mexican stew. De way dey practice an' de way dey play sure has got me scared stiff. I knows a snappy football team when I sees one, an' you can take it from me dem guys has de goods, and plenty of dem."
He sat with his back to the absorbed party beneath the window, and apologized with exaggerated politeness when his chair touched that of the Italian girl, though his accent, needless to say, was redolent of the East side. "They do not come, then?" he heard Vassilan say impatiently. "P'raps notta to-night," said the girl, "but you sure meet-a dem here, mebbe to-morrow, mebbe de nex' day."
I tell you the eggs and the butter's mighty fresh this morning." "Oh, sho, chile," said Linda, "I can't read de newspapers, but ole Missus' face is newspaper nuff for me. I looks at her ebery mornin' wen she comes inter dis kitchen. Ef her face is long an' she walks kine o' droopy den I thinks things is gwine wrong for dem.
"Because it's o' no use to risk our scalps for the chance o' makin' peace wi' a rovin' war-party. Keep yer head down, Henri! If they git only a sight o' the top o' yer cap, they'll be down on us like a breeze o' wind." "Hah! let dem come!" said Henri. "They'll come without askin' yer leave," remarked Joe drily.
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