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He wass at de hotel himself wid hiss shentleman lars' night at de dance. Dey won't put dat in no paper, sir." And the man chuckled. I felt none too comfortable during all this and was glad to be told to read on and be damned. I read to the young American all the morning. He went on exactly like a very badly brought up child.
Feed mice!" exclaimed Dinah "Sakes alive, chile! you go bringing dem mice in de house to eat all our cake and pie. You just better drown dem in de brook before dey bring a whole lot more mices around here." "We'll keep them away from the house," Bert told Dinah. "We're going to have a circus, you know, and these will be our trained mice."
"Well, as dis yer Jeff dat's de lumber-wagon driver's name as dis yer Jeff come up ter dese yer two gentlemen, one of 'em was sayin, 'I'll bet five dollahs dey ain' narry a man in his town would stay in dat ha'nted house all night. Dis yer Jeff, he up 'n sez, sezee, 'Scuse me, suh, but ef you'll 'low me ter speak, suh, I knows a man wat'll stay in dat ole ha'nted house all night."
Sho'nuf, dey wuz Aunt Maria a-stirrin' a big black pot an' a-croonin' somefin' dat make Lijah tremmle lak a leaf. He don' make out wat she say 'cept, "Hoodoo Lijah Jones." Dat was 'nuf, an' Lijah, he crep' away quiet an' hurry home thoughtful-like. He don' believe in no hoodoo, but he wuz oneasy. Dat night he say nuffin' 'bout it to his wife, but he go to bed early. Bambye he wake up.
But when he had done this, the Dey sent word that he had a cargo of slaves and wild beasts for the Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople, and that Bainbridge must take them, or his ship would be taken from him and he and his crew sold into slavery. There was nothing to do but consent, since the ship was wholly in the Dey's power, so to Constantinople Bainbridge sailed her.
"Perhaps not; but it is hardly possible that they could have swum ashore. We were at least three miles from the land, and their boat was all stove to pieces." "Dey might hab hold on to de boat," suggested Quin. "But there was an awful sea for a few moments. Why, the water dashed clean over our decks," added Dan.
"De p'licemans is all aroun' de place. Dey won't let you take nuffin. But I done fooled 'em. Anyhow, de fire's out now, an' dey'll be puttin' de toys back. But I done got a white cat!" So he had, but the China Cat was not so very white now.
"Dey all needs a lickin'." Tom and Jerry turned in at a graveled driveway and trotted through a large lawn set with big trees and clumps of shrubbery. They stopped before the big house, and Uncle Jonah and Hortense got down. The wide door opened, and there stood Grandmother in her white lace cap and black silk dress, as always. Hortense ran up the steps and kissed her.
At the end of a year, the old doctor died, and his nephew sold Vincent again. His next master was a native of Nice, who had not held out against the temptation to renounce his faith in order to avoid a life of slavery, but had become a renegade, and had the charge of one of the farms of the Dey of Tunis.
Whatever doubts may have been engendered as to the nature of the island, there could be no longer any about the character of its inhabitants. "Dey am birds!" suggested the Coromantee; "nuffin more and nuffin less dan birds!" "You're right, Snowy," assented the sailor. "They be birds; and all the better they be so. Yes; they're birds, for sartin. I can tell the cut o' some o' their jibs.
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