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"I did, cos I didn't want de police to coted me. But, say, as true as I stand heah mean sit heah I aint guilty of stealin' dem watches an' t'ings, no I aint!" And Aleck raised both hands earnestly. "Captain Putnam made a great mistake when he dun suspect me." "We know it," answered Dick quietly. "We thought you innocent all along, Aleck."
"Hit will rain to-morrow, sho'. I mus' git in my t'ings." Ma'am Mouton's remark must have been addressed to herself or to the lean dog, for no one else was visible. She moved briskly about the yard, taking things from the line, when Louisette's voice called cheerily: "Ah, Ma'am Mouton, can I help?" Louisette was petite and plump and black-haired.
And ven he gets der bread he es sotisfite only a leetle vile. He soon vants butter on id. Ven he gets der butter in a leetle vile he vants meat, and den he vants vine and a goot cigar, and ven he gets all dese t'ings, he gets seek. I am a seek man. Eef I got id feeften 'undret could haf borrowed dot much I vould haf bought id, but I couldn't get dot feeften 'undret, and now I am glat.
"Yes, Geo'giana," returned Peter, with much humility, "I could suffer great deal more'n dat for your sake; but dere's no sich t'ings as little whippin's know'd ob in dis yar town. W'en de lash am goin' he usu'lly makes de hair fly. Moreober, dey whip womans as well as mans, an' if he was to took de bit out ob your pretty shoulder, I couldn't suffer dat, you know.
But if we say, 'Dat lady big Cap'n Horn's wife all de t'ings and de people b'long to big he' hi! dey men hands off dey shake in de legs. Everybody know big Cap'n Horn." The captain could not help laughing. "I believe you are as big a fool as Cheditafa," said he. "Don't you know I can't make a woman my wife just by calling her so?" "Don' mean dat!" exclaimed Maka. "Cheditafa don' mean dat.
"I lub fishing," he said one day to Nigel when in a confidential mood; "I can't tell you how much I lub it. Seems to me dat der's nuffin' like it for proggin' a man!" When Nigel demanded an explanation of what proggin' meant, Moses said he wasn't quite sure. He could "understand t'ings easy enough though he couldn't allers 'splain 'em."
"Why, how came you to know that?" asked the captain, somewhat perplexed and thrown off his guard. "Ho! ho!" laughed Ebony in a subdued voice, "how I comes to know dat, eh? I come to knows many t'ings by putting dis an' dat togider. You's cappen ob man-ob-war. Well, you no comes here for notting. Well, Rosco de pirit, de horroble scoundril, hims lib here. Ob course you come for look for him.
But, Mose, ef yo' squeal on dem men an' dey hears about it, dey'll give yo' wusser t'ings dan tar an' fedders. Kain't help dat; mus' run de resk. Mas'r Very am mighty pop'lar wid de Jedge, and I believes dat Miss Viola am lookin' on him wid more'n common feelin's.
Seeing this, her father proposed to carry her, but she laughingly declined the proposal. Whereupon Nigel offered to lend her a hand over the rougher places, but this she also declined. Then Moses, stepping forward, asserted his rights. "It's my business," he said, "to carry t'ings when dey's got to be carried.
"Besides, monsieur," added Pelletan, leaning forward, "t'ese t'ings are not all what t'ey seem t'is dragon, par exemple, ees not off bronze, but off t'e plaster of Paris yet I lofe eet none t'e less more, perhaps, because off t'at fery fact." "And these ah females," said Rushford, and waved his hand at the serried photographs, "I suppose even they are necessary to your existence."
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