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"I sometimes wish for peace again," said the Pathfinder, "when one can range the forest without searching for any other enemy than the beasts and fishes. Ah's me! many is the day that the Sarpent, there, and I have passed happily among the streams, living on venison, salmon, and trout without thought of a Mingo or a scalp!
He is partial to long "Oh's," and "Ah's" and solemn breathings; and sometimes tells you more by a look or a subdued, calmly-moulded groan than by dozens of sentences.
Pritchen was prepared for this, and at once brought forth a fair-sized poke of gold and held it up in his hand. "Look," he said. "Much gold; the White Chief's gold. With this I will buy the presents in yonder store." The various "ah, ah's" which passed from one to another revealed the effect his words produced. But still the old man was not convinced.
"He ain't got no manner of use foh dem other gen'lems, and what's mo', dey ain't got no manner of use foh him. Ah's telling you, boy, it's darn lucky, you bet, dat Mistah Falk he eats at second table. Yass, sah. Hark! dah's de bell eight bells! Yo' watch on deck, hey?"
'Boss, he used to say to the foreman, shivering over the fire, 'ah's got to go home. Ah's subjec' to de rheumatics. Mah fambly's a-gwine to be pow'ful uneasy 'bout me. Dis-a-yere country am no place fo' a po' ol' niggah." Two teams were employed in freighting in the corn, four round trips being required, Joel and Manly assuming the work.
Do you call to them, Deerslayer, and tell them I want them, and that it will be good for them both if they'll return and hearken to my words." "Ah's me! Poor Hetty, you little know the cravin's for gold and revenge, if you believe they are so easily turned aside from their longin's! But this is an uncommon business in more ways than one, Judith.
"'Foh Gawd's sake, mistah, doan shoot! he yells. 'Dat white mahn's been tellin' a passel ob lies about me until ah's sartain suah somefing gwine fer to git me. Ah can eat an' talk like any one, an' mos' ebery one knows me about yeah wen ah ain't got dese yeah contraptions on. "'Shut up, you blame fool! says Merritt. 'He won't shoot you.
"Now, what's the programme?" asked Evarts. "You've seen the leader?" "Yah. Ah's done see de right man. De orders am simple." "What are they?" "Misto Reade am to be killed de fust time he show himself," declared Sambo Ebony. "He to be shot down ez soon ez Ah can lay eyes on him. Maybe Ah have to shoot from ambush, but in any case he must be daid befo' de sun go down to-morrow.
Now, Ah ain't sayin' dat he ain't a Voodoo, an' Ah ain't sayin' dat Ah am one. All Ah says is dat Ah's as much of a Voodoo as he is an' Ah'm willin' to prove it!" "How you-all do dat, Ambrose?" asked somebody. "Ah'm comin' to dat," replied Ambrose.
Yass, sah! Ah's gwine keep mah eye on him." Now what did the cook mean by that, I wondered. But no answer suggested itself to me, and when I entered the cabin I heard things that drove the cook and the man from Boston far out of my mind. "Kipping!" Mr. Cledd, the new chief mate was saying. "Not William Kipping?"
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