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"The w'ite man he wuks fur is got one an' Jeffy gits the borrowin' use of her it's a mare w'enever he want to, ez I knows frum whut he tells me an' frum whut I seen. Purfessor, that mare is jes' natchelly ordained an' cut out fur peradin' broad ez a feather-tick, gentle ez the onborn lamb, an' mouty nigh pyure white perzactly the right color fur a gran' marshal's hoss.

"You can do perzactly like you please when you got the mumps," insinuated Jimmy, who had seemingly allied himself with Billy as a partner in business; "grown folks bound to do what little boys want 'em to when you got the mumps."

"Not perzactly. But he's likely ter be a convic' arter I git him," and he chuckled, hoarsely. "Well, this island is posted. We have a permit to camp here, but I don't believe you have any warrant for landing at all," said Bobby, sharply.

Billy theatrically touched a distended cheek. "These here is mumps," he said impressively; "an' when you got 'em you can make grown folks do perzactly what you want 'em to. Aunt Minerva's in the kitchen right now makin' me a 'lasses custard if I'll be good an' stay right in the house an' don't come out here in the yard an' don't give you the mumps.

"O that cunning baby I Where'd you get him?" they cried both at once, opening the gate to look at him. The sulky nurse shifted the bundle to her other shoulder. "Allus had him, mos'," she said; "him or 'nuther one, perzactly like him, to lug roun' while ma's washin'." "Don't you like to play with him?" asked Ethelwyn in a shocked tone.

"A preacher what 'zorts an' calls up mourners?" he said, "not on yo' tin-type. Me an' Wilkes Booth Lincoln " "How many times have I expressed the wish not to have you bring that negro's name into the conversation?" she impatiently interrupted. "I don' perzactly know, 'm," he answered good humoredly, "'bout fifty hunerd, I reckon. Anyways, Aunt Minerva, I ain't goin' to be no preacher.

"They 're 'bout the prettiest eggs ever was," continued the tempter, "all blue and pink and green, and 'bout a million kinds. They're just perzactly like rabbit's eggs." "Me an' Wilkes Booth Lincoln ain't never hear teller no rabbit's eggs sence we's born," said Billy; "I don't berlieve rabbits lays eggs nohow." "They don' lay 'em 'cept to Easter," said Jimmy.

They inquired what he meant by calling it a bad place. 'Ef a lot of the varmints should find we're hyar, don't you see what a purty fix they'd have us in? 'It would be something like the same box in which we caught them in Wolf Ravine, said young Brainerd. 'Jist the same, perzactly. 'Not the same, either, said Hopkins; 'we've got a better chance of getting out than they had.

He pretended he didn't want t' play cards, an' he said he was so doggoned tired an' sleepy that he was goin' t' turn in. I told him that bein' in th' same tent with a whisperin' infant like Yellin' Kid, wasn't perzactly healthy for sleep, but Four Eyes said he didn't mind.

"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 perzactly dat." "Well, if he tol' you dey ain' no ghosts," say Zack Badget, "I got to 'low dey ain't no ghosts, 'ca'se he ain't gwine tell no lie erbout it.