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"Dey stan' her up befo' Mars' Colby, an' hes eyes look lak' dey was red ya-as'm! 'Sally Alley, he roar at her, 'whar de odder laig ob dis goose? "Sally Alley shake like a willer by de ribber, an' she blurt out: 'Mars' Colby! sho' 'nuff dar warn't no odder laig on dat goose. "'Wha' dat? say he, moughty savage. 'On'y one laig on dis goose? "'Ya-as, suh sho' 'nuff.
The river had become as dark as a pocket. From ten fathoms out both shores were merged in one black smudge. "He go fast, sar, long time gone," replied the man, and his teeth chattered with excitement, for he had heard his shipmate's death cry. "Gone long time!" echoed Barry angrily. "Then what are you doing here? Why didn't you follow farther?" "No can do, sar. 'Nother ribber join here, sar."
Ony got to keep by ribber, and he show de way back." "Of course," I said; "I forgot that." "No walk back." "I hope not," I said. "We are going to find the boat." Pomp made a grimace and looked round, as if to say, "Not likely." "No find a boat, put lot ob 'tick togedder and float down de ribber home."
Dey said I'd god doo hang again vanst more if I ever grossed de Ohio Ribber vunst again already, but I ton't vants doo hang no more vor noddin already." "But I'll take care of that," said Andrew. "Before to-morrow night I'll make your house the safest place in Clark township. I've got the rascals by the throat now. Trust me."
"What will happen," said Thatcher, "if this young man tells any one that he's seen you?" "The old massa," said she, "will find out, an' he'll hunt us wif houn's, an' fotch us back', and then he'll sell us down the ribber to the cotton-fiel's." I never heard anything quite so pitiful as this speech. I had never known before what it must mean to be really hunted.
"Oh, Gord, he grown ole and poor-lookin'. He come in, just in dat do', an' he say, 'Sibyl, I long an' long to see you, an' now I see you; an' he kiss an' kiss me. An' dere's one wide ribber o' Jordan, an' we'll soon be dere, black an' white. I was right glad I see ole Mars' Middleton 'fore I die."
Seven miles distant is Key West, the most extreme southern point of United States territory. From the immense light-house pier the distance to the island of Cuba is less than eighteen miles. Returning to the inland, we may spend a few minutes 'Way down 'pon de Suwanee Ribber, Far, far away Dare's wha' my heart is turnin' ebber Dare's wha' de ole folks stay.
An' when a real walloper almost pulls you into de ribber, dat progs your heart up into your t'roat, where it stick till you land him." With surroundings and capacities such as we have attempted to describe, it is no wonder that Moses sat down on the river-bank and enjoyed himself, in company with a little Malay boy, who lent him his bamboo rod and volunteered to show him the pools.
His time wuz mos' up, an' he swo' dat w'en he wuz twenty-one he would come back an' he'p me run erway, er else save up de money ter buy my freedom. An' I know he'd 'a' done it, fer he thought a heap er me, Sam did. But w'en he come back he didn' fin' me, fer I wuzn' dere. Ole marse had heerd dat I warned Sam, so he had me whip' an' sol' down de ribber.
So you neenter be at all skeered, but go 'long 'bout yo' bizness en doan bother yo' min'. "So Dan went down by de ribber, en 'way up on de bank he buried de cha'm deep unner de root er a live-oak tree, en kivered it up en stomp' de dirt down en scattered leaves ober de spot, en den went home wid his min' easy.
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