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Dad seed a lot o' tracks at sun-up." Patsey: "I am; know where I kin get a six-shooter?" We've runn'd away for real pirates." Patsey: "Not for good!" "Can't go back again. Never! Never! Never! The the eye is cast!" Sho'o! Wanter know." Patsey: "Lemme go with yer!" Hickory: "Wot'll yer giv?" Patsey: "Pistol and er bananer." Patsey was off like a shot; his bare little red feet trembling under him.
"Come here my pussonal self walked and runn'd most ob de way." "But, we sent you to the settlement. Why did you not go?" "Bress your soul, Massa Canfield, I'll bet dar's ten fousand million Injines in de wood, atween us and de settlement. I tried to butt my way trough dem, but dar was a few too many, and I had to gub it up." "How came you to wander so far out of your way as to get here?"
"Much you know about 'em," said Phillis, who was shaking the dew drops off her "morning glory." "I knows enuff of 'em I reckon Miss Nannie do, about dis time. De ole gentleman did right, any how, when he lef 'em all to her if he hadn't, dat feller would a sold 'em all off to Georgia 'fore this, and a runn'd off wid de money."
'Whose little gal be yer? says I. 'She's one ob Judge Skylark's niggers, says a woman standin' by. 'Don't see none ob de udders here: shouldn't wonder if she'd runn'd away to see de racin'. Wall, I waited till nobody wan't lookin', an' den I axed her what her name was. 'Dey calls me Vina's little gal, says she. 'Who's Vina? says I. 'Dar ain't no Vina, says she.
"Pray, what's the object of your visit to me, may I ask?" "My husband, sir he runn'd away from me, sure." "Small blame to him," replied the conjurer. "If I had such a wife I would not remain a single hour in her company." "And is that the tratement you give a heart-broken and desarted crature like me?" "Come, what made him run away from you?" "In regard, sir, of a dislike he took to me."
Dad seed a lot o' tracks at sun up." "No o " Patsey. "I am; know where I kin get a six-shooter." "Can't! We've runn'd away for real pirates." Patsey. "Not for good!" "Yes!" "Can't go back again. Never! Never! Never! The the eye is cast!" "No'o! Sho'o! Wanter know." "The Perleese is on our track!" Patsey. "Lemme go with yer!" Hickory. "Wot'll yer giv?" Patsey. "Pistol and er bananer."
Jacky breathed hard and looked upon the young sailor-lad with a deep reverential awe, feeling that he was in the presence of a real Jack the Giant-killer. "He runn'd away!" said Jacky in amazement. "Did you hit him hard?" "Not with my fists; they ain't big enough for that yet. We've only had a sparring-match with words and legs."
Old Doubleyear spoke first: "I had a bad night of it with the rats some years ago they runn'd all over the floor, and over the bed, and one on 'em come'd and guv a squeak close into my ear so I couldn't sleep comfortable. I wouldn't ha' minded a trifle of it, but this was too much of a good thing.
"Ef it hadn't er bin fer de high-strungity-head-strongityness er de Bushrod blood, Miss Deely wouldn't 'a never runn'd off wid Clay Bivins in de roun' worril, dough he 'uz des one er de nicest w'ite mens w'at you 'mos' ever laid yo' eyes on.
"Very well, Sir, very well; but I was a fool to expect any better, for it's all of a piece with the rest; you know, you wanted to fling me out of the coach-window, the very first time ever I see you: but I'll never go to Ranelagh with you no more, that I'm resolved; for I dare say, if the horses had runn'd over me, as I laid in that nastiness, you'd never have stirred a step to save me."
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