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W-We were nearly out into the b-bay before it struck us that we weren't on the right b-boat." "I went down into the cabin," said Spike, "and it was all full of bags and things. Our stuff had gone over some of it to Big Duck that morning, by the steamer. And the rest, Father was going to bring down to the wharf in the carriage.
He carefully maneuvered the very last of the novelties he had built into an originally simple Lawlor drive-unit. The two ships came together with a distinct clanking sound. It seemed horribly loud. Thal jerked open the door, ashen-white. "W-we hit something! Wh-when do we fight?" Hoddan said ruefully: "I forgot. The fighting's over. But bring your stun-pistols.
"Why, it's me!" said Mr. Crow. "What have you got the door bolted for?" And Mr. 'Coon called out, "Oh, Mr. Crow, did you see anything out there?" "Why, no," said Mr. Crow. "What made you think so." And Mr. 'Possum said, "W-we saw something very strange out there, Mr. Crow a v-very curious bird!" "I guess you were dreaming," said Mr. Crow. "There is no bird out here but me, that I know of.
"You see," said Spike, "we got so sick of all this Kidd talk that we thought we might as well get something out of it." "B-Besides," said the other, "w-we were d-d-d-desperate. W-We g- got this f-f-flag s-skull and cross-bones, you know that we had on our b-boat, the 'J-J-Jolly Roger, last summer, and we l-l-lit out for W-W-Woodwell's Wharf to f-f-f-f-fool F-Father.
"N-now," continued the chief, with a gentle sway to the right, which he corrected with an abrupt jerk to the left, "n-now, the sun is about to descend, and w-we are here!" Feeling that he had made a decided point, he drew himself up and blinked, while his audience gave vent to another "Ho" in tones which expressed the idea "waiting for more."
W- With F-Father at B-Big D-Duck, p-p-p-probably, n-n-n-gnashing his t-t-teeth, w-we have only g-got the ch-choice b-between being s-s- strung up for pup-pup-pirates at L-L-Lanesport or j-j-jugged f-for b-b-b-burglars at B-B-Bailey's Harbor." "But you haven't told us yet what you had done," Spike remarked, "did YOU break into Littlefield's house?"
She rave a gasp, and after a moment plunged on into her wrongs: "When when one of us even walks past on the street, they they whistle and say a-all kinds of things out loud, j-just as if w-we weren't there at all. Th- they don't c-care; we're just n-nigger w-women." Cissie suddenly began sobbing with a faint catching noise, her full bosom shaken by the spasms; her tears slowly welling over.
'Possum, w-we meant to, a-all the t-time." And they tried to get up, but were so scared and weak they couldn't, and all at once Mr. 'Possum gave a great big laugh and threw off his sheet and sat down on a stool, and rocked and laughed, and Mr. 'Coon and Mr. Crow realized then that it was Mr. 'Possum himself, and not just his appearance, as they had thought.
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