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"Well, you know," said Jones "where's Colossus? Oh! all right. Colossus strayed off a minute in Mobile, and I plum lost him for two days. Here's the place; come in. Colossus and this boy can go to the kitchen. Now, Colossus, what air you a-beckonin' at me faw?" He let his servant draw him aside and address him in a whisper. "Oh, go 'way!" said the parson with a jerk. "Who's goin' to throw me?
Man an' boy, I've follered the tepee smokes blue an' a-movin' an' a-beckonin' they was an' I never set this hand to no plow in all my life. But in my heart two things never was wiped out the sight o' the white womern's face an' the sight o' the flag with stars. I'll help ye all I can, an' good luck go with ye. Work hit out yore own way. She's worth more'n all the gold Californy's got buried!"
"Well, you know," said Jones "where's Colossus? Oh! all right. Colossus strayed off a minute in Mobile, and I plum lost him for two days. Here's the place; come in. Colossus and this boy can go to the kitchen. Now, Colossus, what AIR you a-beckonin' at me faw?" He let his servant draw him aside and address him in a whisper. "Oh, go 'way!" said the parson with a jerk. "Who's goin' to throw me?
Then in tones of suppressed excitement, with his hands on James Moore's arm: "And, look'ee, theer's ma Gyp a-beckonin' on us!" There, indeed, on the crest of the rise beside the wood, was the little lurcher, now looking back at his master, now creeping stealthily forward. "Ma word! theer's summat wrong yonder!" cried Jim, and jerked the post-bags off his shoulder. "Coom on, Master!
"Thar," he faltered, pointing with his pipe-stem "jes' a minit ago I seen it! a ghost riz up over the bluff inter Old Daddy's Window!" The woman fell instantly into a panic. "'Twarn't a-beckonin', war it? 'Twarn't a-beckonin'? 'Kase ef it war, ye'll hev ter die right straight! That air a sure sign."
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