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"Lash yourselves tight," cried the boatswain, as he threw us some ropes; and in a few moments with Curtis's assis- tance, M. Letourneur, and Andre, Falsten and myself were fastened so firmly to the raft, that nothing but its total dis- ruption could carry us away.
"I ton't understand," stammered the German youth hopelessly. "That's so, and you won't in a thousand years, Hans. But you are the right sort, any way." "I dink I blay me Indian mineselluf some tay," mused Hans. "Dot vos lots of fun to make me tance, vosn't it? Vere you got dot bistol?" "Down in the barn.
Walter, a boy of ten, his brother Robert, aged six, and the negro "companion" Tance who figures as Sam in the extract quoted above stood at the second-story window and watched Sherman's soldiers pass their house, in hot pursuit of General "Joe" Wheeler's cavalry. The thing that most astonished the children was the vast size of the army, which took all day to file by their home.
Some dis- tance out on the point stood a skeleton wigwam carpeted with boughs that were still green, and lying about outside were the fresh cut shavings telling where the Indian had fashioned the new cross and the enclosure about the grave of his little one.
The banks were often sheer from the water's edge, and made landing difficult or even impossible. In one place for a dis- tance of many miles the river had worn its way through the mountains, leaving high, perpendicular walls of solid rock on either side, forming a sort of canyon.
If Monsieur le Baron would take me as cook to Madame Esther, I would be the most devoted of slaves. I should be useful to you, monsieur, to keep an eye on Eugenie and madame." "Dere is no hope of dat," said the Baron. "I cannot succeet in being de master, I am let such a tance as " "As a top," Asie put in.
"Oigh," he said, "ta preacher is a goot feller after all, she will tance with her hern ainsel;" and fiddling his way up to him again, he danced a jig with Jehu, to the infinite amusement of us all. The familiarity which Mr Judd exhibited with the steps and the dance, convinced me that he must have often indulged in it before he became a Christian.
When he arrived within hailing dis- tance, the captain, the sergeant, Coleman's dragoman and many of the soldiers yelled human messages, and a moment later he was seen to be a poor, yellow-faced stripling with a body which seemed to have been first twisted by an ill-birth and afterward maimed by either labour or oppression, these being often identical in their effects.
Look out, or it may go off," added Tom, as he held out the weapons, thinking Hans would draw back in alarm. Instead, however, the German boy took the pistol and of a sudden pointed it at Tom's head. "Now you tance!" he cried abruptly. "Tance, or I vos shoot you full of holes!" "Hi, Tom; he's got the best of you now!" cried Frank from behind the bushes.
Young Sam Adams got up on the stage at Commencement, out at Cambridge there, with his gown on, the Governor and Council looking on in the name of his Majesty, King George the Second, and the girls looking down out of the galleries, and taught people how to spell a word that wasn't in the Colonial dictionaries! R-e, re, s-i-s, sis, t-a-n-c-e, tance, Resistance!
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