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"`A-sailin' down life's troubled stream, All as if it wor a dream." When memory failed he supplemented with original composition. "Goodbye, lad, an' Providence go wi' ye." "Goodbye, uncle. I need not remind you to look after mother when I'm away." "No, nephy, you needn't; I'll do it whether or not." "And Minnie, poor thing, she'll need a word of advice and comfort now and then, uncle."
"I don't like to have her go and tell that I wasn't polite." "You was polite," chimed in little Prudy, from the sofa; "a great deal politer'n she was! I wouldn't care, if I would be you, Susy. I don't wish Annie was dead, but I wish she was a duck a-sailin' on the water!" The children went back to the game they had been playing before Annie came; but the interest was quite gone.
But after the years and years that he toiled and labored for the means to carry out his idees after these long years of effort and hardship, and disappointments and delays after his first vain efforts after he did at last git launched out on the Ocean a-sailin' out on the broad, empty waste in search of sunthin' that he see only in his mind's eye
"Dis de good ole ship o' Zion, Dis de good ole ship o' Zion, Dis de good ole ship o' Zion, And she's makin' for de Promise Land. And how you know dey's angels? Good Lord, Shall I be one? "Dat ship is out a-sailin', sailin', sailin', And she's, &c. She's a-sailin' mighty steady, steady, steady, And she's, &c. She'll neither reel nor totter, totter, totter, And she's, &c.
She's a-sailin' away cold Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, And she's, &c. King Jesus is de captain, captain, captain, And she's makin' for de Promise Land." "De Gospel ship is sailin', Hosann sann. O, Jesus is de captain, Hosann sann. De angels are de sailors, Hosann sann. O, is your bundle ready? Hosann sann. O, have you got your ticket? Hosann sann."
"Uncle Pete he say as de soldiers at Fort Sumter mus' be gettin' hungry," said the little colored girl. "I wish you and I could take Captain Carleton some of these cookies," responded Sylvia. "If you was black like I is we could go a-sailin' right off to de fort in plain daylight," said Estralla. Sylvia sprang to her feet so quickly that she nearly upset the plate of cookies. "Could we?
But lo and behold! come to pry into things, and look about and find out, as the poet sez, that wuzn't a real ship a-sailin' round, as it looked like, but it wuz built up on what they call pilin' jest as if Josiah should stick sticks up on the edge of the creek, and build a hen-house on 'em, or anything.
I saw dree ships come sailin' by, A-sailin' by, a-sailin' by, I saw dree ships come sailin' by On Chris'mas day i' the mornin'. Now who shud be i' these dree ships And to this measure Zeb and Ruby stepped home. At the cottage door Zeb thanked the singers, who went their way and flung back shouts and joyful wishes as they went.
But, good land! it wuz only my emotions that riz me up; my common sense told me that I couldn't walk locked arms with her, for she wuz built out in the water, on a stagin' that lifted her up thirty or forty feet higher. And her hands wuz stretched out as if to welcome Columbia, who wuz a-sailin' right towards her.
"Wall," sez I, "I don't know but I had jest as soon be found a-makin' riz biscuit, a-takin' care of my own household, as the Lord hes commanded me to, as to be found a-sailin' round in a book muslin Mother Hubbard." "It hain't a Mother Hubbard!" sez she. "Wall," sez I, "I said it for oritory. But it is puckered up some like them, and you know it." Hers wuz made with a yoke.
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