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Mos' all de niggers down dis way has bin tol' 'bout him som'how dey has, sah." "So I thought. Well, do you know where he can be found?" "Not perzackly, sah. Ah ain't never onct bin thar, but Ah sorter seems fer ter recollec' sum'thin' 'bout whar he mought be. Ah reckon maybe Ah cud go thar, if Ah just hed to.
So he say' to li'l' black Mose: "'Tain' likely you met up wid a monstrous big ha'nt whut live' down de lane whut he name Bloody Bones?" "Yas," say' li'l' black Mose, "I done met up wid him." "An' did old Bloody Bones done tol' you dey ain' no ghosts?" say Zack Badget. "Yas," say' li'l' black Mose, "he done tell me perzackly dat."
I take it you mean there were no others injured in the wreck?" "Perzackly." "It is a miracle how these boys escaped instant death," the old man went on. "I reckon as how it were owin' to de fack dat dey struck in a bank ob soft sand dat concussioned de fall," explained Washington. "You mean the soft sand saved them?" "Dat's de correctness ob it."
So he say' to li'l' black Mose: "'T ain't likely you met up wid a monstrous big ha'nt whut live' down de lane whut he name Bloody Bones?" "Yas," say' li'l' black Mose; "I done met up wid him." "An' did old Bloody Bones done tol' you dey ain' no ghosts?" say Zack Badget. "Yas," say' li'l' black Mose, "he done tell me perzackly dat."
"I doan perzackly know, Perfessor, but it seems like there was a discontinuation ob de transportation facilities, when some sudden construction on de elongated tempestuousness attached to de railroad made de cars go bump! bump! Bang! Smack! Crash!" "Washington! Washington! When will you stop using words that don't mean anything!" cried the old man, hurrying forward.
I am going to send Sam back through the woods there and have him climb that ridge. From the top he ought to have a good view up the valley of the Illinois. I suppose you might go with him." "Ah sure wish yer wud, Missus," broke in the negro pleadingly. "Ah ain't perzackly feered fer ter go 'lone, but Ah's an' ol' man, an' Ah reckon as how a y'ung gal wus likely fer ter see mor'n Ah wud.
"But what could he be doing there on a troop boat?" The negro scratched his head, momentarily puzzled by my question. "Ah sure don't know, sah," he admitted. "Only dat's perzackly who it was. Ah reckon dar ain't no boat whut won't take a passenger, an' Kirby, he knows ebery captain 'long dis ribber.
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