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"It's the first time I remember when he worked on an invention without telling me something about it," mused Ned. "Well, I suppose it will all come out in good time. Anything new, Rad?" "No, Massa Ned, nuffin much. I'm detectin' around heah; keepin' Dutchmen spies away!" "And Koku is helping you, I suppose?" "Whut, him? Dat big, good-fo'-nuffin white trash? No, sah!
Suah yo' didn't see dat good-fo'-nuffin boy?" "No, I didn't see Dan." "He must have been with his father when the landslide occurred," went on Tom. "And if one escaped more than likely the other did, too. My, how I despise that chap! and have, ever since we had our first row with him at Putnam Hall." "I wonder what brought Arnold Baxter back to this section of the country?
"My chemical extinguisher is completed, and you did your share in making it a success. But I never would have felt like claiming credit for it if you had been had been left in the dark." "No mo' dark, Massa Tom!" said Eradicate. "I kin see now as good as eber, an' yo'-all won't hab to 'pend on dat lazy good-fo'-nuffin cocoanut!" and he chuckled as he looked at the giant. "Huh!
Without knowing or caring how much amusement she was causing, the cow stole a potato from the bag, jumped down, and quietly munched it. This feat was repeated again and again, until finally an end was put to Mark's and the cow's enjoyment of the meal, by the arrival of the colored owner of both wagon and potatoes, who indignantly drove the cow away, calling her "a ole good-fo'-nuffin'."
It's just secret, and I don't want too many people about. You can go anywhere else except there. Koku is on guard." "Den can't I be, Massa Tom?" asked the colored man eagerly. "I kin guard an' detect same as dat low-down, good-fo'-nuffin white trash Koku!" Tom hesitated. "I suppose I could get you a sort of officer's badge," he mused, half aloud. "Dat's whut I want!" eagerly exclaimed Eradicate.
I almost run into him, an' den I discobered it was dat good-fo'-nuffin Dan Baxter." "He was watching the houseboat?" "Dat's it." "Did he recognize you, Aleck?" "Not till I spoke to him. I said, `Wot yo' doin' heah, Dan Baxter? When he heard dat he 'most jumped a foot. Den he mutters sumthing wot I couldn't make out an' runs away." "Did you go after him?" "Yes, but I couldn't cotch him nohow.
They concluded that she had become disgusted at being called "a ole good-fo'-nuffin," and had carried her talents elsewhere. The train left so early the next morning that the sadness of parting was almost forgotten in the hurry of eating breakfast and getting down to the station.
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