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You may go on now, and don't say anything to anyone about what you have told me." "I won't, Massa Tom," promised the colored man, as he went off muttering to himself. "Well, what do you make of it, Tom?" asked Ned of his chum, as they walked on toward the shed of the new, big aerial warship. "I don't know just what to think, Ned.
"We'd better take him," said Lawrence; "he's not very big or old, but he seems intelligent enough, and no doubt knows something of his father's haunts and sporting customs." "You's right, massa," assented the negro. Lawrence made a sign to the lad to embark, and Quashy backed the invitation with "Jump aboord, Leetle Cub."
If they wet it, it would stay curled. "Massa Jim sold his niggers when he wanted to. He sold my grandpa and Uncle Steve. Grandma wanted him to sell her and he wouldn't do it. I don't know what become of grandpa. After freedom Uncle Steve come back to us all. Grandpa was crying. He come to our house and said he had to go. We never seen him no more.
"Tanky, Massa Rattlin, dear, tanky; you make me very happy; but, for true, no. Were you older more fifteen year, or me more fifteen year younger, perhaps but tank ye much for de comblement. Now go, and tell buckra doctor."
"Him go get massa officer's rifle," said Aboh, who was delighted to make use of some of the words with which he was best acquainted; and without waiting to obtain our sanction, he darted off in the direction from which Charley came. "See if you can find Tom anywhere," I shouted.
"How young massa's poor nose dis long time? How him feel, spose now again?" he inquired, with a deferential grin. "Young massa ebber able take a pinch of good snuff? He! he! missy berry heavy den? Missy no learn to dance de nose polka den?" "What on earth does he mean?"
"But where is there another canoe?" I asked, not seeing one near. "Never mind, Massa Walter," he answered; "shove off shove off, I say;" and running the canoe down to the water, he forced us both into it, putting a paddle into the hand of each. "Dere, dere, you go off; I come off in 'noder canoe! Go, go! I say, go!"
"No, Massa Gascoigne," replied Mesty, "I try it myself, by-and-bye. Now what we do?" "I must give you the order for the thousand dollars, Mesty," replied Jack. "The rascal here writes to me that for that sum, he will consent not only not to oppose me, but agrees to assist my cause; but the great question is, whether he will keep his word with you, Mesty; if not, I shall lose my money.
A hearty laugh, in which Arthur and I indulged, at the look of astonishment in his countenance, was the first intimation he had of our being close to him. "Oh, Massa Guy! where have you been all this time?" he exclaimed, as I lent him a hand to get up on the bough. "Hid away among the branches of this tree," I answered. "And pray, where have you come from?"
We trod as carefully as we could, keeping ourselves as much as possible concealed by the trunks of the trees and brushwood. Sometimes we had to get down close to the lake when we could discover no other way through the wood. The Dominie was trying to find a path between the trees when I heard Rose exclaim "Hist! Massa Mike, dare come canoe ober de water!"
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