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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I'll make fast to a bush and you may get out the victuals, Moses." "Das de bery best word you've said dis day, massa," remarked the negro with a profound sigh. "I's pritty well tired now, an' de bery t'ought ob grub comforts me!" "Do you mean that we shall sleep in the canoe?" asked Nigel.
I stole down de starway an' look outen a winder in de d'rection whar Cap'n Lane was, an' I see dat de Linkum men had let all dere fires go out. It was bery dark. Den I hear Missy Roberta open her doah, an' I whip back ter my lof. She come soon an' had a mighty hard time wakin' me up. an' den she say: 'Zeb, dere's sumpen goin' on 'mong de Yankee sogers.
I ain't conversing with you, rawbones! Speak when you're spoken to! Come, 'Bijah, fire away." "Bery good, massa. Ye see I'se Mass' George Wingate's boy.
He ended by humming, "Now all dem happy days am ober." "Better not let Massa hear yer sing dat ar," said Dinah. "He make yer sing nudder song." "She's mighty gran' lady, an' a bery perlite missis, an' Ise sorry fur her," replied Tom. Mr. Fitzgerald had no sense of refreshment in his morning ride. He urged his horse along impatiently, with brow contracted and lips firmly compressed.
"What!" cried Foster eagerly. "Dat you's got nuffin to do wid," returned the negro decisively. "You must know not'ing, understand not'ing, hear an' see not'ing, for if you do you'll be whacked to deaf. Bery likely you'll be whacked anyhow, but dat not so bad. You must just shut your eyes an' mout' an' trust all to me. You understand, Geo'ge?"
"One, two, tree, bery good; hit Injin some; shoot at Long Hair good; much hard get way; to the most, much poor shoot here, shoot dere, shoot everywhere!" "But what makes you think the children are in the cabin?" asked Mrs. Jones; for, mother-like, her thoughts were constantly recurring to them.
"Bery well as far as me make out," answered Jumbo. "Sometimes steer east-south-east, sometimes south-east." "Well, tell the men that that course will carry us on shore before daylight to-morrow morning," said Stephen. "Me tink dey break dis nigger's head if he stop talking," said Jumbo, hurrying away in a great fright.
"So I is, Quash, bery t'ankful, but what's to be dooed? Is massa to go away widout sayin' good-bye to Miss Manuela?"
Having done so on the present occasion, he shut his mouth with a snap and opened his eyes. "Ho yis," he said in a low tone, "bery nice when it all plisent like now, but it am anoder t'ing when de fresh mountain air goes howlerin' an' bowlerin' about like a wild beast, an' when it snowses an frozes fit to cut off your noses an' shribel up de bery marrow in your bones! Oh! you got no notion what "
The twelve chattering Kroomen who were to go as far as the Bambara country with the expedition were seated two in each canoe. They were along simply as camp attendants and packers and would by no means go any further than the borders of the Bambara country which they said was the dwelling-place of "bery bad man sah."
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