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"I told you the squall was coming half an hour ago. Why didn't you come on deck, and attend to your vessel?" "Don't be sassy," said Captain John. "I'm not the skipper of this craft. If I had been, that sail would have been safe. I told you the squall was coming, and after that I did the best I could." "You ain't good for nothin' 'board a vessel.
He saw wonderful things, day after day, looking down at the green fields or peering into the gloomy reaches of the wood; and he talked about them. 'Uncle Eb is that where the swifts are? he would ask often; and the old man would answer, 'No; they ain't real sassy this time o' year. They lay 'round in the deep dingles every day.
Yet he could hardly define wherein the contrast consisted. "I know I ain't no fool," was his reflection, "yet I know I must look like one to these sassy town fellows." The sight of an Italian fruit and cake stand reminded him that he was hungry, so he invested a nickel in a frugal supply of gingerbread, which he munched as he stood on the curb. "Take banana.
The biggest brother conferred long and solemnly on the question. When it was settled, the little girl came out of the sitting-room with a look of hopeful determination upon her face and hunted up Sassy. The latter had grown so bold since the Thanksgiving before that any one could pick her up without running after her.
Hennage, raising an admonitory forefinger, "our motto is 'Keep off the grass." "Oh, I won't walk on your darned old grass" Carey retorted. "I'll just step between it." They shook hands in friendly fashion, and Carey hurried away. Mr. Hennage stared after him. "Sassy as a badger" he murmured. "I can't bluff that hombre. He'll go as far as he can, an' be ready to jump in the first chance he sees.
"'One word more, sais you, 'and I have done. If your army officers out there, get leave of absence, do you stop their pay? "'No. "'Do you sarve native colonists the same way? "'No, we stop half their salaries. "'Exactly, sais you, 'make them feel the difference. Always make a nigger feel he is a nigger, or he'll get sassy, you may depend.
And when it was noised abroad that he had proposed that all the colored men of the county should band together to protect themselves against this evil, as he chose to regard it, he was at once branded not only as "dangerous" but as a "desperate" and "pestiferous" nigger, instead of being considered merely "sassy," as theretofore.
He wuz very peart and sassy, and it was take-it-or-leave-it-and-be-plaguey- quick-about-it all the time. But I paid my $5, gathered the things up, and started back to the house. I hadn't got more'n 100 rods away when I met one o' these officers with only one o' them things in his shoulder straps." "A First Lieutenant," interjected Si. "Yes, they called him a Lieutenant.
I am Maud your old friend, Maud." "Pale-face hab two name Tuscarora got t'ree. Some time, Nick sometime, Sassy Nick sometime, Wyandotté." "You know my name is Maud Willoughby," returned our heroine, colouring to the temples with a certain secret consciousness of her error, but preferring to keep up old appearances. "Dat call you' fader's name, Meredit'; no Willoughby."
But after all no great harm has been done; only it goes to show we must keep our eyes open all the time we're up here." Toby heaved a great sigh. "Whew! but it's getting some exciting, let me tell you, fellows. All the while you're gone today I'll be nervous and think I heard footsteps every time a gray squirrel whisks around a tree, or barks at me so sassy like."
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