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It contained but a single occupant, a negro, who appeared nearly as old as Solon. He listened with open-mouthed wonder to the boy's hurriedly told story, and not only expressed a ready sympathy, but promised to have "de young gen'l'man an' der lilly lady lamb on de sho' in free minutes. Ole Clod, him know de way. De frog can't fool him on desh yer ribber."
"We must take it home, Pomp," I said. "No," he said, with a look of disgust. "Um quite dead now. Frow um into de ribber." "Oh no! I want my father to see it, and Morgan." "We go an' fess um den." "No, no. You must carry it home." "No, too heaby, Mass' George, and um begin to 'tink."
Now," he continued, "I must leave you here, 'cause I don't want to let any one know dat I's been away from de plantation. You must cross dis creek, and foller dat road," pointing to a narrow, well-beaten bridle-path on the opposite bank, "an' dat will lead you straight to de Red Ribber.
I'd been a wukkin' right peart in de new-ground dat day, an' when I got ter dat pine thicket jes past de spring by de Brook's place, 'twixt de Haw Ribber an' Stony Fork, 'long 'bout nine o'clock I reckon, I wuz dat done out dat I jes takes a drink at de spring, eats a bite o' bread an' meat, hunts a close place under de pines, an' goes ter sleep right away.
"Well, den, siven fat cows come up out ob a ribber, an' hoed slap at siven thin cows mis'rable skinny critters that " "All wrong, Ebony," again interrupted Waroonga. "It's just the other way. The skinny ones went at the fat ones." "Well, ob course you must be right," returned the negro, humbly, "though I'd have 'spected it was t'other way.
"You know, dear, the first Convention voted against Secession!" Sam reached the door and met Ben. "Uncle Ben he's a comin' Marse Stuart's horse! I seen him 'way 'cross de ribber fust des one long, white streak er dust ez fur ez de eye can reach!" The mother gripped Mary's arm with cruel force. The strain was again more than she could bear. "Oh, dear, oh, dear, what have they done?
Grandison looked around uneasily. "Let 's go back ober de ribber, Mars Dick. I 's feared I 'll lose you ovuh heah, an' den I won' hab no marster, an' won't nebber be able to git back home no mo'." Discouraged, but not yet hopeless, Dick said, a few minutes later, "Grandison, I 'm going up the road a bit, to the inn over yonder. You stay here until I return. I 'll not be gone a great while."
There was a scent of honey from the lime trees in flower, and in the sky the blue was beautiful, with a few white clouds which looked and perhaps tasted like lemon ice. He could hear Bob playing: "Way down upon de Suwannee ribber" on his concertina, and it made him nice and sad.
If you hain't got anything pleasanter to say, you might as well shut up." "Yes, I be an old fool," said Primus, as if speaking to himself, "and dis is all de tank I git from dis white man. I depose my life on de ribber.
Birds we heard from time to time, and now and then the rustle of a squirrel as it leaped from bough to bough, but nothing else till there were, one after the other, four ominous splashings in the river, which gave me a very uncomfortable feeling with regard to crossing to the other side, and I looked at Pomp. "Dat 'gators," he said shortly. "No 'wim cross de ribber."
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