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She is kep' by my fren', Madame Bouvet." "Xavier," said Nick, looking at the rolling flood of the river, "suppose this levee should break?" "Ah," said Xavier, "then some Spaniard who never have a bath he feel what water is lak." Followed by Benjy with the saddle-bags, we went down the steps set in the levee into this strange, foreign city.
I keeps it nice an' clean jus' lak I learnt how to do frum de white folks where I used to work. I aint never work for no common folks. I tries to live lak a Christian an' do jus' lak Old Mistis say. Den when I die I can go to Heaven." Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies Smith Hodges, Ex-Slave, Pike County FEC Mrs. W.F. Holmes
"Wal," hesitated the other, "mebbe dat would depen' on de crime." "Suppose it was murder?" "Ha! We ain' got no men lak' dat in Flambeau." They said good-night, and the old man entered his house to find Alluna waiting for him, a look of worry on her stolid face. "What's wrong?" he inquired. "All night Necia has been weeping." "Is she sick?" He started for the girl's door, but Alluna stopped him.
"M'sieu' David is one fine young man, but he not know the big woods lak' ol' Jean. The ot'er man, he also not know." Jean shrugged his broad shoulders. "If all Jean's life he stay in cities, it would be so wit' him." "But Jean, have you any idea of what might have happened to Tom?" entreated Mrs. Gray. Again Jean shrugged. "Many t'ings might 'appen.
De fox kum back en de partridge seze now lets cook dis libber en both ob us eat hit. De partridge cooked de libber, et hits part rite quick, en den fell ovuh lak hit wuz sick; de fox got skeered en said dat beef ez pizen en he ran down de hill en started bringin' de beef back en w'en he brought hit all back, he lef' en de partridge had all de beef."
The meetin' hed been goin' on six days, an' things hed got in a good weavin' way. Thah wuz no less than five preachahs holdin' forth to oncet in diffrunt parts uv the grounds; so I tells Cissy thet ez thah wuz no tellin' when I'd git thah ag'in we'd meandeh 'roun' permiscous lak an' tek in all we could.
"Ah, I forgot to tell you dat, m'sieu." He pointed towards the southern shore of the lake, where a small tree-covered island stood about half a mile from the shore. "You see zee island, m'sieu. Just opposite dere ees a creek. Zee regular trail comes out to zee lak' just dere, an' it ees dere dat you may look for zee comin' of Chigmok."
If it ain' so mooch danger for Win to git hang " He paused and looked at Tex with owlish solemnity. "A'm no lak we cross dem bad lands. Better A'm lak we gon' back t'rough de mountaine." "You dig out them air-tights, if there's any in there, an' quit your croakin'!" ordered the cowboy. And with a grin Bat thrust in his arm to the shoulder.
"Oui, A'm hear dat. She mak' me laugh lak' hell." "Laugh! I didn't see nothin' so damn hilarious in it. What do you think about Purdy?" "A'm tink dat dam' bad luck she no git keel." The half-breed paused and grinned: "De pilgrim she mak' de run for nuttin', an' you got to ke'p on lyin' an' lyin', an bye-m-bye you got so dam' mooch lies you git los'. So far, dat work out pret' good.
Sound as from a great distance awoke him. He opened his eyes. Outside the fence, and regarding him gloatingly, were two swarthy Mexicans in conversation. This was what had awakened him. "Bet you' life!" one was saying, the taller man of the two. "Thot's my li'l' horse grown big lak a house and a-fine! Franke, we gettin' thot caballo quick. We " A door had closed somewhere.
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