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I'm picking this place especially because those cabbage palms will keep the mast of the sloop from sticking up and betraying its location to any flyer passing over." "I'd call that a mighty fine idea, partner," declared Perk enthusiastically. "Never would athought o' anything like that myself my old bean don't work along them lines I guess.
"That's just the way I feel about it," said the sheriff. "If I'd athought there was any call for him I wouldn't have let him go fishing, I'd have kept him about." "Oh, let the nigger fish he has powerful luck. What's he usin', Sheriff; worms or minnies?" "Worms," said the sheriff shortly. Presently the crowd drifted away in the direction of the tavern. Hannibal meantime had gone down to the river.
"If he'd athought the like o' that in his head, I'd read 'un such a lesson he'd never think again the longest day he had to live." "Speak out, Dan," said the clergyman, not attending to the woman. "You can understand that no good can come of a lie." Dan Morris scratched his head. "Speak out, man, when I tell you," said Crawley. "Drat it all," said Dan, "where's the use of so much jaw about it?"
Be like habbin' poor Mas'r Noll's face afore him de whole time, an' ef he ken stan' dat, athought lubbin' him, I's 'feard he's dun got colder'n a stone, de whole ob him. You jes' wait an' see, Hagar!" Noll followed his uncle from the breakfast-table into the library, hoping that he would at once say something about his books or studies, or at least hint what plans he had made concerning himself.
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