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It'll have to spend itself, though, that cuss will, I'm afeard. 'But, I said, 'you don't mean that you think for her father's crime she'll have to beg her bread in desolate places. 'I do though, wusser luck, said the Gypsy solemnly, stopping suddenly, and standing still as a statue. 'And this, I ejaculated, 'is the hideous belief of all races in all times!
"Positively, Ned, you get on my nerves." "Yais, Massa Ned, an' I jest wish yo' wouldn't mention dem head gen'men no mo'," added Eradicate. "I can't drive straight when I hears yo' say dem words, an' goodness knows dese oxes is wusser t' drive dan my mule Boomerang." "All right I'll keep still," agreed Ned, and then he and Tom, together with Mr.
I spec's you wukked him too ha'd dis summer, er e'se de swamps down here don't agree wid de san'-hill nigger. So you des lemme know, en ef he gits any wusser I'll be willin' ter gib yer five hund'ed dollars fer 'im, en take my chances on his livin'.
"Wan't nigh as bad as what some of de others got. Some of his pets amongst de mens got it wusser dan de womens. He strap em crosst de sharp side of a barrel an give em a few right smart licks wid a bull whip." "And what did he do to the bad ones?" "He make em cross dere hands, den he tie a rope roun dey wrists an throw it over a tree limb.
"No, massa," said the negro, with more of sulkiness or less of amiability than he had exhibited since they first met on the western side of the Andes, "breakin' our legs would be wuss smashin' our necks would be wusser still. But de hosses is not lost. Dey's on'y spunkerblued." "How? What d'you mean?"
I nebber know'd noting wusser," replied Rais, with a look of sleepy exasperation. "Beats ebberyting. Been five-an'-twenty 'eer in de kontry, an' nebber seed de like." "Seed the like!" echoed the seaman. "Did ye saw 'em when ye was aslape?" "Feel um, then," replied the other sulkily; "yoos too purtikler." "Suppose we goes an' has a whiff?" suggested Flaggan, leaping to the ground.
Those curious individuals who desired to see the wusser were introduced into an apartment where appeared before them nothing more than a little lean shrivelled hideous blear-eyed mangy pig. Everyone cried out "Swindle!" and "Shame!" "Patience, gentlemen, be heasy," said the showman: "look at that there hanimal; it's a perfect phenomaly of hugliness: I engage you never see such a pig."
As to that he had no misgiving, but an inner voice spoke in disturbing whispers. He could not forget Hump Doane's appeal and prophecy of tribulation. By killing Bas now he might even loose that avalanche! "An' yit ef I tarries a few days more," he argued stubbornly within himself, "hit's ergoin' ter be even wusser. I'm my own man now an' licensed ter ack fer myself."
"'No, Aun' Peggy, we be'n gittin' 'long wusser. Mars Johnson is stric'er 'n he eber wuz befo', en de po' niggers doan ha'dly git time ter draw dey bref, en dey 'lows dey mought des ez well be dead ez alibe. " Uh huh! sez Aun' Peggy, sez she, 'I tol' you dat 'uz monst'us pow'ful goopher, en its wuk doan 'pear all at once.
En den de cunjuh man lafft some mo', en 'lowed ter hisse'f dat he wuz gwine ter fix Dan now, sho' 'nuff; he wa'n't gwine ter kill 'im des yet, fer he could do sump'n ter 'im w'at would hu't wusser 'n killin'.
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