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There was a body of spotless white, an obscure mass which might be a head, and two long, white, straight arms, spread apart like a cross. This strange creature was advancing toward them. "Oh, golly! massa, look ye dar! dat am a ghost!" whispered the darkey. "A banshee, begorra!" said Terrence.
"No, massa, as I say, you nebber come up again, unless you pop up in de sea," observed the guide. "Dat hole full ob salt water and full ob big fish; but I nebber gone down, and nebber intend to go he, he, he!"
He goes out into the cotton-field and finds Jacob. "Jacob," he says, "I am a great sinner. Jacob, I feel that I am sinking into hell. Jacob, pray for me. I mean to turn about, if I live." "Dats jest what I've sought de Lord for, massa, dis six months coming New Year. Let's go up into de loft; it's whar I've wrastled for you in prayer." He leads the way.
It is difficult to distinguish between revenge, which is wrong, and a desire to punish evil-doers, when we ourselves are affected by their misdeeds. The young negro, after talking away and making signs to Hemming for some time longer, desired to be put on shore. Murray was ordered to convey him there. "Good man good man, Massa Hemming," he kept saying all the time.
"Cause mah garden am jest oberrun wid weeds. If I had one ob dem dinnasorriouses " "Dinotheriums," corrected Jack. "Dat's what I said," observed Washington with dignity. "If I had one ob dem, I wouldn't hab t' weed mah garden. Where am one to be possessed ob, Massa Jack?" "I guess you were born a few million years too late," was the lad's answer. "They lived a few centuries before the flood."
I wish I had something to do I do not much like this cooping up on board ship." "Massa, why you no talk with Pedro?" "Because I cannot speak Spanish." "I know dat, and dat why I ask de question. You very sorry when you meet the two pretty women in the ship, you not able to talk with them, I guess that." "I was very sorry, I grant," replied Jack.
Then the barking of dogs reached our ears. This made me still more surprised at the unwillingness of the ox to proceed. Then I distinguished some water, on which the light of the fire was reflected. Between us and it, however, several dark objects appeared. In vain Mango now tried to urge on the ox. He stopped altogether. "Ah, massa, look dere!" he exclaimed in a terrified tone.
He leaped to his feet, bounding one step sideways, while Tom, who had been watching for this very chance, sprang to his own feet. "Not so fas', massa!" mocked the big black, reaching out and taking a strong clutch on. Tom's coat collar. Reade would have squirmed out of his coat and placed more distance between them, but Mr.
"No, he not come back yet, but he soon come, an' den you see," he answered, looking very mysterious. At length, one evening, I met him running towards the house in a state of great excitement. "Wha'r Massa Denis?" he asked; "me tinkee me got b'ar for him now. Wha'r is he?" For a wonder, he was in the house, as was Dan; so I called them both.
He perceived that each of the wicked youths held a gun, and seemed ready to shoot. But as he approached, they drew back. He wished to speak to them in order to persuade them not to follow him on his journey, but to go another way; however he could not get near them; but he heard them cry out, "O Massa, we don't want you; we want Wylie."
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