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Nuffin' doin' the whole idea is to keep behind; there is no doubt of that. But the guide is very vigilant. All troops are guided to their positions, and the man on this ticklish job is nearly always a sergeant. He has an eagle eye, and a feline sense of hearing. He will note your skip forward. "Keep your paces, lads ... keep your paces." His voice booms altogether too loud for us.
"Well," said Joe Bates when, one by one, the men had crept back to the fire, "if that ain't a bloomin' miracle! I ain't never seen nuffin' like it. Ain't you 'arf 'ad an escape, Pongo?" "Pongo" rose to his feet, and edged towards the traverse.
"Ob cose it's got money in it," Jeff reasoned. "Nuffin else 'ud be done up to tight and strong. I'se woan open it jes' yet, feared de missus or de colored boys 'spec' someting. Ki! I isn't a-gwine ter be tied up, an' hab dat box whip out in me. I'll tink how I kin hide an' spen' de money kine of slowcution like."
Not daring, or caring, to question his guide, until they were safely on the edge of a pier that was several feet above the sea. "What now?" he said. "All right. I have a bateau tied down da, waitin' for us. Her's de rope to slide down. But as you'se afeerd, mebbe I'd better go down fust. Here goes! I'se afeerd of nuffin, 'specially in de harbor."
"Yes, show what yo' got, Jeff!" cried the other colored boys. "Oh, I ain't got nuffin much!" Jeff answered, as he moved away from Sam and the other boys. Sometimes they had taken things away from Jeff, and Jeff was afraid that was what they were now going to do. Inside the blouse of the colored boy the China Cat heard what was said, but she could see nothing.
When you fust start out, I was gwine long wid you, but you lef me, and den you said nuffin 'bout me comin' wid you, and I spose you not kear 'bout habin me bodderin' you. Dat's all how it war, Massa Tom. "'Yes, Ham, I see. Well, it is all right. You stay with the headquarters and take care of my traps, and I will not ask you to take command of my troops in time of battle.
His suitcase was at Walker's and it was hardly possible that Walker had forwarded his effects. He opened the door cautiously and saw at a glance that the bag was undeniably his. He groped for his trousers and gave the waiting porter half a dollar. "How did it get here?" he asked with attempted indifference. "Don't know nuffin' 'bout it, suh; gemmen tole me tote 'er up. If it ain't all right "
"Not you, Miss Elsie! not you, darlin'," interrupted the old woman; "ole Dinah's a great sinner, she knows dat well nuff but you, darlin', you never did nuffin bad."
Like Topsy, perhaps it 'growed. Like the late Lord Beaconsfield on a famous occasion, 'on the side of the angels. Like Brer Rabbit, 'To lie low and say nuffin. Like Oliver Twist, 'To ask for more. Like Sam Weller's knowledge of London, 'extensive and peculiar. Like Napoleon, a believer in 'the big battalions.
"I'll do my best," Max said, mounting his pony, which Tom the colored boy was holding. "Me, too, Marse Ed'ard, dere shan't nuffin hurt Miss Zoe," added the latter, giving Max the bridle, then mounting a third horse and falling behind the others as they cantered down the avenue. A little beyond the gate the family carriage passed them, Mr. Dinsmore and a strange gentleman inside.
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