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Approaching Tong Wah, he asked: "When will the death-drink be ready?" "It is now prepared," was the reply. Long Sin took the bowl in which the liquor had been mixed, and, having examined it, he gave a nod and a grunt of satisfaction. Then he mounted the ladder again and disappeared.
"Quite an admission, was n't it, from an American? But I think they have changed since the wah, you know." At the next landing, the smooth and beaming churchman was left by his friends; and he soon retired to the cabin, where I saw him self-sacrificingly denying himself the views on deck, and consoling himself with a substantial lunch and a bottle of English ale.
"Wah wah wah wo hoo yow wow rrrrrr-rrrr-rrrr" and the other ravens joined in. Rolf had no weapons but his bow, his pocket knife, and a hatchet. He took the latter in his hand and walked gently forward; the hollow-voiced ravens "haw hawed," then flew to safe perches where they chuckled like ghouls over some extra-ghoulish joke.
"The winter of the big snow," or "the year when deer was scarce" on the Gatineau, is not as good a guide to time-reckoning in the towns as in the woods, and Mrs. Ben Wah knew no other. Her thoughts dwelt among the memories of the past as she sat slowly nodding her turbaned head, idle for once.
An' dat wur de berry best ting ebber happen ter ye, kase it sot yer to wuk an' put yer in de way ob makin' money for yerself. It was hard on sech ez ole Mahs'r, dat's a fac, even ef 'twas mostly his own fault; but it was worth a million ter sech ez you. You 'uns gained mo' by de outcome ob de wah, right away, dan we cullu'd folks'll ebber git, I'm afeared."
"Sure I'VE no accent. I just speak naturally. It's YOU have the accent to my way of thinkin'." "Really?" asked the amused Jerry. Peg imitated the young man's well-bred, polished tone: "Wah ye bawn theah?" Jerry laughed immoderately. Who was this extraordinary little person? was the one thought that was in his mind. "How would you say it?" he asked. "I'd say it naturally.
"Dar's somebody got ter do de stealin' in dis yer worl'," he returned with rustic philosophy, "des es dar's somebody got ter be w'ite folks en somebody got ter be nigger, caze de same pusson cyarn be ner en ter dat's sho'. Dar ain' 'oom fer all de yerth ter strut roun' wid dey han's in dey pockets en dey nose tu'nt up des caze dey's hones'. Lawd, Lawd, ef I'd a-helt my han's back f'om pickin' en stealin' thoo dis yer wah, whar 'ould you be now I ax you dat?"
"Is it true there has been big trouble at Amritsar burning and killing?" "Wah, wah! Shurrum ki bhát. Because he who made all the trouble may not come into the Punjab, Sahibs who have no concern are killed " An intensified uproar drew their eyes back to the mob. It was swaying ominously forward, with yellings and prancings, with renewed showers of bricks and stones.
If it be, sirs, that you are here with the same design as others have come wah, before you proceed with your wise arguments, I entreat you to hear the story of my countless misfortunes, for perhaps when you have heard it you will spare yourselves the trouble you would take in offering consolation to grief that is beyond the reach of it."
I reckoned I'd waltz over and bring along the boy," pointing to a grizzled negro servant of sixty who was bowing before them, "to tote yo'r things over instead of using a hack. I haven't run much on horseflesh since the wah ha! ha! What I didn't use up for remounts I reckon yo'r commissary gobbled up with the other live stock, eh?"
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