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"'Stop, you black scoun'rel! Marsa John says, his face gittin' white an' he a-jerkin' his handkerchief from his pocket. 'Shoo! "Major, I hope to have my brains kicked out by a lame grasshopper if ebery one ob dem gooses didn't put down de udder leg! "'Now, you lyin' nigger, he says, raisin' his cane ober my head, 'I'll show you' "Stop, Marsa John! I hollered; ''t ain't fair, 't ain't fair.
I must see him after breakfast and bid him caution his wife to use less." But as they rose from the table John came in unsummoned, and carrying a fine large goose under each arm. Bowing low: "I ish come to pring two gooses to de von hundredth birthday," he announced; "dey pees goot, peaceable pirds: I ish know dem for twenty years, and dey nefer makes no droubles."
'Now, I call it a beautiful place, said the man, 'and if you finds gooses hereabouts growing ready for the fire, all but plucking, why, it's a bountiful place, I call it. The women tried to keep him silent. But for them we should have moved our encampment. 'Why, of course, young gentlemen, if you want to eat the goose, we'll pluck it for you and cook it for you, all nice, they said.
'Now, I call it a beautiful place, said the man, 'and if you finds gooses hereabouts growing ready for the fire, all but plucking, why, it's a bountiful place, I call it. The women tried to keep him silent. But for them we should have moved our encampment. 'Why, of course, young gentlemen, if you want to eat the goose, we'll pluck it for you and cook it for you, all nice, they said.
Blowed if I don't put you under the pump! She would have given you a guinea for the letter by way of postage. But it all comes of living with red herrings and gooses' eggs." And so saying Mr Daggles resumed his usual seat in the dining-room, and went on with the perusal of the Morning Post. Mr Pitskiver's origin, like that of early Greece, is lost in the depths of antiquity.
Have them down on the wharf to meet us or we are gone gooses. "Now make it good and fast to that marlinspike, and stand by to toss it ashore." I did as he directed. By then we were close to Antioch. The wind was shouting through our rigging, the Mary Rebecca was half over on her side and rushing ahead like an ocean greyhound.
"'Chad, whar is de udder leg ob dat goose? "'It didn't hab none, says I. "'You mean ter say, Chad, dat de gooses on my plantation on'y got one leg? "'Some ob 'em has an' some ob 'em ain't. You see, marsa, we got two kinds in de pond, an' we was a little boddered today, so Mammy Jane cooked dis one 'cause I cotched it fust.
"Not so very strange," remarked Edward, with unmoved countenance, "for they don't teach fence-making in ordinary schools." "Vell, den, de more's de bity," returned John, taking his departure. But turning back at the door to say to Miss Stanhope, "I vill put dose gooses in von safe place." "Any place where they can do no mischief, John," she answered, good-humoredly.
"That funny little thing that looks like a mouse, Dorothy, except for its horrid black wings, is called a bat. And the goose was only Aunt Peggy." "And Ruth, another," remarked the owner of that name. "And I was Number Three. Three gooses instead of three graces," was Amy's addition, after which the three laughed in the fashion which Dorothy found so mystifying, and consequently objectionable.
"'Wot I tell yo'? Wot I tell yo', Mars' Colby? cry Sally Alley. 'Ain't all dem gooses got one laig lak' I tol' yo'? "But Mars' stride right ober to de fence an' clap hes han's. Ebery one o' dem geese puts down hes foot an' tu'ns to look at him. "'Das ain' no fair! das ain' no fair, Mars' Colby! squeals dat yaller gal, all 'cited up.
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