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"To be chucked into a hole like a dead cat, by a cunning old wool head, was more'n mortal man could bear," he said, "and he didn't know why he shouldn't knock out his black brains, on the spot." "You can try de 'speriment, if you please," said Primus, cooly, "and when dey is knock out, I advise you to gadder dem up for you own use."
"Your fadder's in de blues to-day," said Zulu, as he toiled over his cooking apparatus in the little cabin; "when he spok like dat, he goes in for heavy drink." "I know that well enough," returned Billy, almost angrily. "Why you no try him wid a 'speriment?" asked the cook, wrinkling up his nose and displaying his tremendous gums.
"Next time I see Bess Fettleworth I'll give her a bit of a hint o' what Magic will do for her. She'd be rare an' pleased if th' sinetifik 'speriment worked an' so 'ud Jem." Dickon had stood listening to the lecture, his round eyes shining with curious delight.
"I thought she must be possumin'," she said, "but I know she is as fas' asleep now as de bar' in de hollow ob a tree in cole wedder, for she made no 'sistance like wen I grabbed de key from undernefe her head, an' here it is, chile, an' ef you wants to try your 'speriment you kin, but I spec you'd better wait a spell," and she looked cunningly at me; "dere's traps everywhar in dese woods!"
"No why?" "'Cause I can't stand that, tough as I be. I lived wi' a doctor once, and says he to me, 'Simon, I want to speriment on ye, says he. 'I'm tough 'nough, says I. 'I want to waccinate you 'gainst cholera, hoopin' cough, and small-pox, says he.
"For any sake don't open your mouth like that, Zulu, but tell me what you mean by a 'speriment," said the boy. "How kin I tell what's a 'speriment if I'm not to open my mout'?" "Shut up, you nigger! an' talk sense." "Der you go agin, Billy. How kin I talk sense if I'm to shut up? Don't you know what a 'speriment is? Why it's it's just a 'speriment you know a dodge."
"Bridget always has enough to do," said Gertrude, evading a direct answer; "and it's very well for me to have some practice; knowledge never comes amiss, you know, Mrs. Prime." "'Tant no kind of an afternoon for 'speriment o' that sort; and you wouldn't ha' done it, I'll venture to say, if you hadn't been afeard Miss Emily would want her things, and find out they wan't done.
"Next time I see Bess Fettleworth I'll give her a bit of a hint o' what Magic will do for her. She'd be rare an' pleased if th' sinetifik 'speriment worked an' so 'ud Jem." Dickon had stood listening to the lecture, his round eyes shining with curious delight.
"Your 'speriment might have been better after all, Zulu," he whispered as he passed up again, and stood before his father. What may have passed in the mind of that father during the brief interval we cannot tell, but he still stood with the empty wine-glass in his hand and a fierce expression on his face.
Your fadder never take time to smell him's grog always toss 'im off quick." "Yes, an' then he'd toss the wine-glass into my face an' kick me round the deck afterwards, if not overboard," said Billy, with a look of contempt. "No, Zulu, I don't like your 'speriment, but you've put a notion into my head, for even when a fool speaks a wise man may learn "
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