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"The post-office robbed?" cried the boys as Bucephalus began distributing the letters he had in his pouch. "Yas'r an' de station an' de spress office an' mo' dan dat de post-office on de river was visited, too, in de same buglarious fashion an' a big lot o' pussonal property misappropriated by de nocturnal malefactors. Dey done said dat dey was abo't to call on de bank but got skeered off."
Wise acted on his own initiative from information received elsewhere, is that it?" Bucephalus scratched his woolly head, and answered: "Ah donno abo't de inflammation an' de oder misery, sah. Am it so bad as all dat, sah?" "I mean that he did it on his own account, and not because of anything that you may have told him." "All reckon so, sah," said Bucephalus, greatly relieved.
"I have an idea, but ideas can't hang a man. Anyhow, I don't want it to get abroad that Jack Sheldon and I do not know how to tie up a boat or tie any ordinary kind of knot. The whole Academy would laugh at us if that notion got around." "Ah reckon de 'cademy knows all abo't yo' an' Mistah Jack a'ready an' wha' yo' done befo' dis," said the negro with a broad grin.
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