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That dooey-dooey when catch 'em spear he go down quick, come up under canoe capsize 'em. Two fella boy swim about long time by that reef; no catch 'em that canoe. Swim; swim l-o-n-g way; no catch 'em beach; go outside; follow canoe all time. One fella say 'Brother, where we now? 'Long way yet. Swim more far, brother. Bi'mby two fella talk 'Where now, brother? 'Long way outside.
"Oh, you go on. You hunt for a burnt stick, and if you don't find one bring me the shears instead." Thus, with many consultations of Caleb's draft, the cutting-out was done really a very simple matter. Then the patching was to be considered. Pack-thread, needles and very l-o-n-g stitches were used, but the work went slowly on. All the spare time of one day was given to patching.
At last from a spur of the mountain she saw the sea "L-o-n-g way. Too far. Me close up sing out." Though she might cry, the sight of big salt water beside which all her life had been spent was a joy and a stimulant. Pushing and worming her way through the jungle, she encountered nothing but birds, wallabies, and snakes. Once she was startled by what seemed to be a worn narrow track.
With averted face he sullenly said: "That fella Tchoosie he run away. He go l-o-n-g way, alonga mountain!" "Look here! You no humbug. Where Soosie sit down? Plenty row along white man suppose Soosie no come back. That fella Soosie belonga Missis. Missis very sorry. She bin make'm Soosie all asame white Mary." Still the face-averting boy reiterated: "That fella Soosie he bin go long way more far.
"Uncle Bob," said Dumps, thoughtfully, "s'posin' they wuz some little girls l-o-n-g time ergo what stole ernuther little girl outn the winder, an' then run'd erway, an' waded in er ditch, what they Mammy never would let 'em; efn er jay bird would see 'em, would he tell the deb'l nuthin erbout it?"
As the croupier spun the wheel, three shots rang in an almost continuous explosion and the gamblers fell over each other in an effort to dodge the flying splinters that filled the powder-fogged air. "Little black bull slid down the mountain, L-o-n-g t-i-m-e ago!" roared the Texan as he threw open the cylinder of his gun. "H-e-e-e-e scraped his horn on a hickory saplin', L-o-n-g t-i-m-e ago "
And when he wished to bring Ellen Culpepper to time he would begin in a low terrorful voice, "And I saw the man take a g-r-e-a-t l-o-n-g knife d-r-i-p-p-i-n-g with r-e-d-b-l-o-o-d out of his t-e-e-t-h and go slish, k-slish," but he never got farther than this, for the girl would begin shaking, and if they were alone, would run to him and grab him and put her hand to his mouth to make him stop.
Suppose you fella kick'm up row big fella government come clear you fella out. No more let you sit down longa this country." "Country belonga me. You no humbug. You bin catch'm that fella Tchoosie l-o-n-g time. You bin make'm good fella. Belonga me now." The disgusting old fellow went on to explain that he intended to come up to the house that evening. "You hunt'm that fella Tchoosie, me catch'm.
Tom was half ashamed of this encounter, and while glorying in the scar with which Willie had decorated him, excused his own conduct in these terms: "Willie fight alonga razor. He bin make mark alonga my ear. My word! Me savage then. B'mbi sit down alonga Willie. Willie close up finish. Me bin forget about that fella altogether. When Willie wake up he walk about all asame old man l-o-n-g time!"
"But," I suggested, "plenty of your country men think about another place when you die finish." "Yes, some boy he say when you dead you go long another place. L-o-n-g way. More better place, plenty tucker, no work, sit-down, play about all day. When you come alonga that place father, mother, brother, sit-down no more can die!"
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