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"I heerd the commissioner give orders to-night that your 'osses should be seized in the morning for the sogers to ride on, and I think he is doing it out of spite." "But he has no right to touch private property," I remarked. "Vot does you s'pose he cares for the right? He vill say that they is needed, and that is 'nough. You can't help yourselves, you can't. Vot is the use of talking?"
"I'se nineteen, sah, an' my mother was a slave. I reckon my father was white 'nough, but that don't count fo' much I'se a nigger just de same. Dat's bad 'nough, let me tell yo', but it's worse to be yo' own father's nigger." I had nothing to say to this outburst, feeling that back of it were facts into which I had no right to probe, and we rode along quietly.
Two men reeled across the street and sat down by me. "Oo-oo!" one gurgled. "Dan's goin' t' kill 'imself 'cause 'is wife's gone," blubbered the other. "Tell 'm not ter, can't ye, matey? Tell 'im' t's 'nough fer one t' die!" "Oo-oo!" bellowed Dan. I walked away in the darkness, but I felt better.
Uncle Terry looked at Albert a moment, and suddenly grasping his hand, exclaimed, "I can't thank ye 'nough for yer offer to help me, but I kin say how sorry I am I distrusted ye at fust, and as long as I've a roof to cover my head, ye'r' sure to find a welcome under it, an' the latch-string allus out." "I thank you for your kindly words, Mr.
"Fast 'nough so fast, he follow," answered the Indian, who, notwithstanding his preparations to help to remove the canoes, was manifestly reluctant to depart without striking another blow at his enemies. "Now good time for dem rascal to lose scalp!" "Them rascals, as you call them, begin to understand their friends in the marsh, and are looking to the priming of their rifles.
"Widout dem mules an' niggahs an' bar'ls dah wouldn't be 'nough water in dis town to wet a chaw tobacky." A winding macadamized road leads up the river bank to the main street running parallel with it. There is a short cut by a rickety stairway, but, as some steep climbing has to be done before reaching the lower step, it is seldom used.
"I couldn't see it that way myself, as you say, but o' course it's your fun'ral! Ef you kin scratch up enough grub bein' a tree, why that's your own lookout. Moss is good 'nough fer me fer de present." Michael beamed his wonderful smile on Sam and answered: "Perhaps you'll see it my way some day, Sam, and then we can get a job together!"
But somebody will get killed sure 'nough if you bad men try any more knife tricks." "You damn fool!" muttered the scarred man to his companion. "You left that rifle in the canoe." "They's only two of 'em; let's get 'em." At that instant the captain moaned painfully. "Anybody else want the same dose?" asked Higgins.
"Wal, Sheriff Gleason's a' been tellin' of it 'round, and ther ain't no other talk 'round the country only that." "What 'ud I sell out an' leave for? Ain't I well 'nough off whar I is?"
More torture than 'nough here. Angels with stars in their heads, more better. But the stars stab through through through " "Bother the stars," said I to myself. "What of Miriam?" I asked, interrupting his penitential confidences. His references to steel-gray eyes and stars and angels somehow put me in no good mood, for a reason with which most men, but few women, will sympathize. "Stupid ox!"
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