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"Naw, suh," said Roddy, "but he did look rich 'nough to have one. Leastways I ain' seen he had one." "Have you seen the man with the beard since?" "Naw, suh. I jes' tole you, boss, he done shave it off." "And Mr. Morley?" "Yas, suh, I done seen him. He's in de hotel now. He's de same man." "Did he wear rubber overshoes when he had the beard, and when he didn't have it?" "Yas, suh bofe times."
It war leyke as thoo His feeace cam a glisterin' an' a shinin' through t' mist. An' iver sense then, miss, aa've jest felt as thoo aa could a' cut an' stackt all t' wood on t' fell in naw time at a'!" And he waved his hand round the mountain side which was covered with plantation.
Don't you see?" "Naw; I don't see nuthin'. Ye ain't gone cracked, hev ye? Whose picture?" "It's there! O Lord! it's there! My God! can't ye see? An' it's his face all a-gleamin' with green flames Holy Mary an' I ain't seen it afore in fifteen year!" He seemed suddenly to collapse, and the stranger permitted him to drop limp to the earth.
It takes oh, I should say, about fifty years for a man to go sort of crazy and begin to yell; but I showed the keepers how to stop that. Now, they put fish hooks in your tongue, and tie you up " "Great Gawd A'mighty!" Tusk screamed, springing away from him. "Don't tell me no moh it's plumb wicked!" "I haven't begun to tell you half, yet!" "Naw, naw.
"You would think so," replied the Lizard. "I've tried two or three times to go straight. Wore out my shoes looking for a job. Never landed anything that paid me more than ten bucks per, and worked nine or ten hours a day, and half the time I couldn't get that." "I suppose the police hounded you all the time, too," suggested Jimmy. "Naw," said the Lizard; "dat's all bunk.
"Congratulations, Bud; that is some boy?" said my Gouverneur Faulkner with a question as he again grasped the hand of the large man. "Naw, Gov; we didn't have no luck this first shot but I tells Mandy that we've got about a dozen more chanstes if she does as well by me as she oughter. Anyway what's the matter with a gal child?"
As he went mechanically about his work, he was pondering futilely upon his friend's mysterious journey, and his tantalizing hopes lying untried in the depths of the ravine. He hardly noticed the conversation of the men until something was said that touched upon the wish nearest his heart. "I war studyin' 'bout lettin' Birt hev a day off," said the tanner. "An' ye'll bide hyar." "Naw, Jube naw!"
"Naw 'm, I ain't hongry; the Major man what I talk to on the train tuck me in the dinin'-room an' gimme all I could hol'; I jest eat an' eat tell they wan't a wrinkle in me," was the reply. "He axed me 'bout you, too. Is he name' Major Minerva?" She opened a door in considerable confusion, and they entered a small, neat room adjoining.
"He says," interposed the ever-ready Skeeter, as his companion made queer noises in his throat, "that he never knowed it was you. He never went to trip you up. Honest to goodness! You ain't mad, are you?" "No, I ain't mad." Myrtella still smiled as she brushed the dust from her skirt. "Here's a orange I brought you, Chick. You ain't been sick, have you?" "Naw!
The rowboat could not be distinguished it must have sunken, or else drifted away, a helpless wreck. The first sound my ears caught, echoing across the water, was an oath, and a question, "By God! a good job; do you see that fellow anywhere?" "Naw," the response a mere growl. "He's a goner, I reckon; never knowed whut hit him, jedgin' frum the way he upended it."
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