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"Seein' ez I've turned the Pontiac over to Sleight jist as it stands, I don't know ez it's 'zactly on the square," said Nott doubtfully. "You've a right to know at least what you deliver to him," interrupted Renshaw, brusquely. "Bring a lantern." Followed by Rosey, Renshaw and Nott hurriedly sought the lower deck and the open hatch of the forehold.
"What makes us get hungry?" asked Violet, as Mun Bun let Rose brush the snow from him. "What makes us?" "It's when something tickles us in our stomachs," answered Laddie. "I know, 'cause I feel that way right now. I wish I had something to eat." "So do I," said Margy. "My stomach doesn't zactly tickle, but it's hungry." "Well, I'll go and ask Grandma for some cookies," offered Russ.
I'm a loyal man myself, an' I'll stand up for my Queen an' country, no matter what may be the circumstances in w'ich I'm placed; so that w'en I sees another man admittin' that he's a outlaw, an' finds the soldiers of his Queen a-huntin' all about the country arter him and his comrades seems to me there's a screw loose somewheres." "Dat's my sent'ments zactly," said the negro, with a decisive nod.
His face at that moment was not the face of a real old cowpuncher, but the sweet, dirty, mother-hungry face of a child. "It's a far ways," he said plaintively. "It's a million miles, I guess I wanted to go home, but I couldn't des' 'zactly 'member and I thought I could find the bunch, and they'd know the trail better. Do you know the trail?"
"'Zactly so: that's just what he says; and as he has no friends, he thinks you might stand by him in a pinch, if you knew as how he has been in the lock-up half the night, and has now been walked off to Bridewell."
If I gits out o' grub, I catches me a ride to town, an' I comes back wid de grub. "De good Lawd, he don't forgit me." Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies "My name's James Singleton. I'se a Baptist preacher. I was born in 1856, but I doan know zactly what date. My mammy was Harr'et Thompson.
I 'splained to you how I lost my hat," reproached the Kid, clinging fast to the Little Doctor's hand. "Yes and you 'splained that you'd have gone into that deep hole and drowned with nobody there to pull you out if you hadn't been scared of a water snake," Chip pointed out relentlessly. "I wasn't 'zactly scared," amended the Kid gravely.
"But the aborigines," continued Lucien "The abor-what? sir," asked Flaggan, removing his pipe. "The aborigines the original inhabitants of the land " "Ah, I see, sir," returned Ted; "them as was at the werry beginnin', just arter Adam and Eve like; 'zactly so fire away!"
"How are you, Dolly?" said the child, marching in and standing by the bedside with the air of a Royal Messenger. "I'm pretty good," and Dolly smiled wanly at her little visitor. "How's Dotty?" "Dotty's awful. But she'll be better when she knows how you are. So tell me zactly." "Well, tell Dotty my right leg is broken. One of the bones just above the ankle.
"Why, son, what had happened?" said Grant, his abundant sympathies instantly responding. "Teddy's spoiled," the child sobbed. "I set him on the side of the pig pen, and he fell'd in, and the big pig et him ate him up. He didn't 'zactly eat him up, either just kind of chewed him, like." "Well that certainly is too bad.
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