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I tought I owed you enuff before, but it war nothing to dis. Just to tink dat you should take all dat pains to fetch Dinah back for me! I dunno how it came to you to do it. It seems to me like as if you been sent special from heaben to do dis poor nigger good. Words aint no good, sah; but if I could give my life away a hundred times for you I would do it."
Anderson, said: "'Mssa Gen'l, did you see dat man out at de barn, sir? "'No, said the General. "'Well, sah! dat was the wussest lookin' Sesh I eber did see. He war lyin' in de hay, and when he look at me I lef; yes, sah, I lef. Somefin wrong dar, sah. You better ax Massa Joseph, when he be down to de house, 'bout dat.
"He was in de basket all done wrapped up in hankowitches." "Those were the handkerchiefs I took from my pocket and put in Mandy's basket when I met her at the gate," said Mirabell's daddy. "And so you found him, Jim!" "Yes'm I mean yes, sah! Me an' Liza Ann found him. He's a jolly good Clown; but Mammy, she wouldn't let us keep him 'cause as how she said he belonged to Mirabell or Arnold."
Gregg, half sighing, "we were young once, eh, Judge? young once ouhselves." "Lucky dog!" said the judge; "lucky dog! But he seems a gentleman, and if he has propah fam'ly an' propah resources, it may be, yessah, it may be she's lucky, too. Oh, Northehn, yessah, I admit it. But what would you expeck, sah, in these times? I'm told theh are some vehy fine people in the No'th."
"Another time, George, never allow a guest of mine to send away wine. If he don't care for it, put it on the sideboard." "Yes, sah; but as yo' didn't like it yo'self, Marse Harry, and de wine was de most 'xpensive quality ob Glencoe" "D n the expense!" He paused, and gazed searchingly at his old retainer.
A pair of young men, unacquainted with each other, pressed at the same time to the punch-bowl, and Jack, the chief ladler, turning from the younger, a clerk in civil dress, helped the elder, a tall naval officer, to a couple of glasses. The clerk, young Utie, who was somewhat flushed, addressed the chief ladler and remarked: "You dam nigger, didn't you see my glass?" "See it, sah? Yes!
Now, Tony, we shall have to be careful, for those whistles are no doubt meant as an alarm; and although she cannot tell who we are, she will probably steam up, and if they have any forces opposite Bermuda will give them news that two suspicious characters have landed, and they will have parties out to look for us." "Dey can look as long as dey like, sah.
"You were in a battle?" Julius scratched his head and walled his eyes: "I had er little taste ob it, sah, " "Well, you tried to fight, didn't you?" "No, sah, I run." "Ran at the first fire?" "Yas, sah! An' I'd a ran sooner ef I'd er known hit wuz comin' " Julius paused and broke into a jolly laugh: "Dey git one pop at me, sah, 'fore I seed what dey wuz doin'!"
After expatiating at considerable length and in glowing language on the prodigious effects of such projectiles, I then unfolded to him the manner in which this particular sample might be exploded. "Do you see that thing?" pointing to the fuse. "Yes, sah, I sees him," replied the dusky warrior. "Well, now, if I spit on that the thing will go off.
"Askari him foots, sah!" he reported, holding up three fingers of his right hand to indicate that he had discovered the spoor of three of the German native soldiery. "H'm!" muttered Dudley. "That's rotten news. New spoor, Tarry Barrel?" The Haussa nodded vehemently, and led his officer to the footprints. Examination showed that three natives had been following the spoor of the two naval airmen.
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