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"Then you actually went foraging up there, and got back safely with this load?" "Um!" said Joeboy. "Boss Val must have plenty to eat. Doppies nearly caught um." "So I should expect," I said. "But you nearly got shot, stealing up to the lines like this." He laughed softly. "Boss Val wouldn't shoot Joeboy. Doppies nearly ketch him. Big lot coming down now." "What!" I said excitedly.
"Then we're going wrong, Joeboy," I said; "that's the east." "Um!" he said. "Too much that way. Going right now." I looked back in the direction of the Boer camp, but nothing was visible there. It seemed as if the darkness lay like a cloud upon the earth; but, upon turning again to look in the way the heads of the oxen were pointed, I could see what looked like a hillock in the distance.
Arthur opened the door, and admitted a smart little man in nankeen breeches and gaiters. He bustled into the room. "What's this bad accident um um! Sad thing, very sad. Open the window. A glass of water a towel." "So so: I see I see no fracture contusion. Help him off with his coat. Another chair, ma'am; put up his poor legs. What age is he, ma'am? Sixty-eight! Too old to bleed. Thank you.
The basket is covered tightly with a cloth so as to be air-tight, and it is allowed to remain in this condition for a couple of days, during which time the liquor has oozed out into the bowl. To make ka'iad um the material, the rice or millet from which the ka'iad hiar was brewed, is made use of.
"Bravo!" cried the Director, "Um Himmel's Willen, child, you have a voice like a lark rising in the meadows, and you sing Bravo! Bravo!" He put out his hands and took the girl's trembling ones into his own. "You will take me?" she said, "You see, when I am not so nervous it will go better."
"But um so heaby, Mass' George, and poor Pomp drefful hot an' tire." "Dreadful lazy you mean," I cried, angrily. "Come, sir." "Now, Mass' George cross again, and goin' break poor lil nigger heart," he whimpered. "Stuff! Sham! Lay hold of that head." "Break um back den, carry dat great heaby thing." "It will not. You didn't think it heavy when you dragged it along with the axe."
However, on being told how things stood, he began in Spanish, and opening his mouth as wide as he could, the better to articulate, said: "Vos sois um homen de bem." The native listened, but made no reply. "He doesn't understand," said the geographer. "Perhaps you haven't the right accent," suggested the Major. "That's just it! Confound the accent!"
"Come over home with me and I'll plaster it so it won't break or swell. You know I know how," I answered, eagerly. "Cold cream and an old handkerchief like you used to keep. Um um! the thought is good, Betty," he answered, as he stood on his left foot for a second and then lifted it as if he were a huge crane.
Miss Margaret!" began the minister, with a commandatory gesture for her to stop. Margaret was the picture of haughtiness as she turned and said, "Miss Earle, if you please!" "Um! Ah! Why, certainly, Miss ah Earle, if you wish it. Will you kindly remain here for a moment? I wish to speak with you. Bud, you may go on."
Our friend Johnson is far too suspicious a man, and has too much at stake to give us any such opportunity, if watchfulness on his part can prevent it. Why, he has already anticipated the possibility of such an attempt on our part, and was good enough to caution me that we should always find him ready." "Um!" ejaculated the skipper, meditatively, "that is bad news.
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