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"I ain't seen nuffin' nor heard nuffin'," protested the old woman. "Girls, this is serious," said Mrs. Barkdale, rising; and she summoned Lieutenant Macklin, who belonged to a class not received socially by the family. "We have but this moment discovered," said the lady, "that Captain Lane and Surgeon McAllister are not in their room. Therefore we suppose they are walking in the grounds.
If ever there was a witch on earth, she was one, and as she crouched in one corner, smoking her clay pipe, her eyes closed, telling her weird stories to the girls, no one can wonder that they were strangely affected. "Now, chillun, lem me tell ye, dat ef ebber a witch catches ye, and pinches ye, and sticks pins in ye, ye won't see 'em, ye won't see nobody, ye won't see nuffin," said old Tituba.
I done forgot to tell ye." "What does he want, Todd?" asked St. George, dropping into his seat. "I dunno, sah said he was lookin' fo' sumpin' fo' a frien' ob his I think it was a gun an' he wanted to know what kind to buy fur him Yes, sah, dem waffles 's jes' off de fire. He 'lowed he didn't know nuffin' 'bout guns butter, sah? an' den Mister Pawson spoke up an' said he'd better ask you.
"Yes, grandma," said Dotty, twisting her front hair joyfully; "but here in the country they want little girls to have good times don't they? Why don't everybody move into the country, do you s'pose? Lots of bare spots round here, nothing on 'em but cows." "Yes, nuffin' but gampa's cows," chimed in Flyaway, twisting her front hair. "Louisa," said Mrs.
"I hope you had not begun to give me up." "I began to be terribly frightened, sir terribly frightened. I went dis afternoon and asked Captain Burley if he had any news ob you. He said 'No'; and asked me ef I knew where you were. I said 'No, sah; that I knew nuffin about it except that you had gone on some dangerous job. He said as dey had heard nuffin had happened to you.
Then Washington White, looking into the engine-room from his kitchen, exclaimed: "Now, don't yo' all go t' worryin' 'bout dat ole comet. It can't hurt us, an' we'll knock it into smithereens!" "You talk that way because you know nothing of comets," said Mr. Roumann solemnly. "I don't know nuffin' 'bout 'em?" demanded the colored man. "I knows too much ob 'em, dat's what I does.
"Well, we don't want no shoelacers, nor lead pencils, nor nuffin! You must be selling something." "I am not selling anything," said Patty. "I came over because Miss Daggett sent for me." "Laws 'a' massy, child, why didn't you say so before you spoke? Be you Miss Fairfield?" "Yes," said Patty; "here's my card."
Eradicate approached nearer and nearer the entrance to the building, pursuing his task of gathering up leaves, dirt and sticks with the teeth of his rake. Then Koku, who had been lounging on a bench in the shade of a tree, Called: "No more, Eradicate!" "No mo' whut?" asked the negro quickly. "I didn't axt yo' fo' nuffin yit!"
"Yo' all didn't hab nuffin' t' do heah!" "Huh! I didn't, eh?" cried Sam. "Nuffin t' do! Why, I cut de grass, an' fed de chickens, an' watered de lawn, an' an' " "Go 'long wif yo'," ordered his wife with a laugh. "Bring in some mo' wood for de fire!" "And get a screw-driver so I can let Snoop out," begged Flossie. "He's tired of being shut up in the crate!" "Right away, Missie!
"No, Dotty don't; her don't 'low me care nuffin there now!" cried Katie, very glad to tell her sorrows. "She's so little, you know, Aunt 'Ria," murmured Dotty, with her hand on the door-latch. There was a struggle going on in Dotty's mind. She wished very much to run away, and at the same time that "voice" which speaks in everybody's heart was saying, "Now, Dotty, be a good girl, a noble girl.
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