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As he blew the grey smoke from his nostrils he watched the half-breed who sat nearby industriously splicing a pair of broken bridle reins. "Did you get that ticket, Bat?" he asked, with a hand pressed tightly against his aching forehead. The other grinned. "Me, A'm no wan' no ticket. A'm lak A'm stay wit' you, an' mebbe-so we git de job togedder." The cowpuncher smoked for a time in silence.
I think you'll find he has a contract for all the coal that comes down the line." They pondered this and another remarked, "Peat's terrible messy stuff and bad to dry at back end o' year." "It can be dried," said an old man. "I mind the time when iver a load o' coals went past Allerby. Aw t' folk clubbed togedder to cut and haul t' peat from Malton.
I had de hosses ready, an' we went out de back way to'ds de river. Ez we rode along, he said: "'Sam, you an' I wuz boys togedder, wa'n't we? "'Yes, sez I, 'Marse Chan, dat we wuz. "'You have been we'y faithful to me, sez he, 'an' I have seen to it that you are well provided fur. You want to marry Judy, I know, an' you'll be able to buy her ef you want to.
'Curse him! sed de reb; 'he spoil my ebenin' wid Miss S'wanee, but tell her I win her colors yet, an' pay dis Yankee cap'n a bigger interest in blows dan he eber had afo. Den he 'splain how he got his men togedder, an' he foun' anoder 'tachment ob rebs, an' how dey would all come in de mawnin', as soon as light, an' ride right ober eberyting, an' 'lease de cunnel an' all de oder pris'ners.
So one evenin' an ole white 'oman come fum de Sound, an' she tole us that a sperit had done tole her whey some money was buried; an' she wanted us to come down dere and dig it up; she couldn't dig for it, but she knowed whey 'twas de sperit had tole her. So we got togedder and made a club to go down three of us. De place was on Wrightsville Sound, not fur from Mr. Wright's place.
She puts me mighty much in mine ob dem days wen we war all young togedder; wen Miss Nancy sed, 'Harriet war too high fer her. It jis' seems like yisterday wen I yeard Miss Nancy say, 'No house could flourish whar dere war two mistresses. Well, Mr. Robert " "Oh, no, no, Uncle Daniel," interrupted Robert, "don't say that! Call me Robby or Bob, just as you used to."
Old Dock was explaining in his best English, and he was courteously refraining from the faintest smile. "Dey de new, bettaire kind. I send for dem, I t'ink maybe I sell. I put her in de grip so I carry dem all togedder. My mediceen, she in de beeg ches'." Weary had sat down and his head was dropped dejectedly into his hands. He had bungled the whole thing, after all. "Well," he said apathetically.
"Sh!" whispered the German, reaching forward and catching the arm of his friend; "waits one, two, dree smond." "What is the matter?" asked the alarmed Jack, as he turned hastily about. "Let you go dot way and me go dot way, and it leetle ways off we comes togedder agin once inore."
Den he took charge o' de plantation arfter dat; an' I use' to wait on 'im jes' like when we wuz boys togedder; an' sometimes we'd slip off an' have a fox-hunt, an' he'd be jes' like he wuz in ole times, befo' ole marster got bline, an' Miss Anne Chahmb'lin stopt comin' over to our house, an' settin' onder de trees, readin' out de same book. "He sut'n'y wuz good to me.
She was pointed and witty, solemn and serious at will, and at almost every sentence awoke deafening applause; and she ended by asserting, "If de fust woman God made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, all alone, dese togedder," and she glanced over the audience "ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again, and now dey is askin' to do it, de men better let 'em."
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