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Updated: June 13, 2025
The captain's laugh was the loudest of all. "Six shots the señor took," he guffawed, "and missed with them all! Ah, didn't I tell you that the Americans are bluffers, like their game of poker? This one carries two guns and cannot use even one!" Kid Wolf smiled quietly. A faint look of amusement was in his eyes. "Maybe," he drawled, "yo'-all had bettah look at that hat."
Val opened the door of the bedroom. The sunlight was fading fast and already the corners of the large room were filled with the gray of dusk. But light from the windows swept full across the bed and its occupant. Val hobbled stiffly toward it. "Hello." The brown face on the pillow did not change expression as Val greeted the swamper. "How do you feel now?" "Bettah," Jeems answered shortly.
"You mean to say that I am a brick aw good, dooced good; I must tell that at the club dooced clevah; couldn't do much bettah meself, doncherknow? Now, if you will kindly rise from your seat aw I will point out a vewy interesting mountain peak." "Thank you, I can see well enough without rising."
Oh mah gracious! I done guess you'd bettah not!" "Oh, please, Dinah! It's easy. You can help me." Dinah gave in, as she usually did, and got out some sugar, some water and a saucepan for the little girl. Dinah knew Flossie was too little to be trusted alone around the stove, so she stood near herself. "Let me pour in the water," begged Flossie, and she was allowed to do this.
"My young mistis des seein' her mammy 'bout her clos," replied the quick-witted Zany. "I thought I yeared voices down by the run." "Reck'n you bettah go see," said Zany in rather high tones. "What the dev what makes yer speak so loud? a warnin'?" "Tain' my place ter pass wuds wid you, Marse Perkins. Dem I serbs doan fin' fault." "I reckon Mr. Baron'll do mo'n find fault 'fore long.
'Twern't nuffin laik dat." "But what was it? Your hand is hurt!" "Well, Massa Tom, I s'pose I done bettah tell yo' all. I'se had a shock!" "A shock?" "Yas, sah. A shock. A lickrish shock." "Oh, you mean an electrical shock. That's too bad. I suppose you must have touched a live wire." "No, sah. 'Twern't dat way." "How was it, then?" "Well, yo' see, Massa Tom, I were playin' a joke on Koku."
She came on deck all in a tremble, and with the others hurried to the bow of the wreck. It was much easier to climb down than to climb up, and soon all three stood upon the rocks below, where the driving rain pelted them mercilessly. "I t'ink I can find yo' a bettah place dan dis to stay," said Old Ben. "Come down to de shoah," and he led the way to where he had left his boat.
So you'd bettah look fo' anoder cook, Mrs. Bobbsey." "Nonsense, Dinah! We can't let you go that way. It's all foolishness to talk about ghosts. Probably the door was left open, and Snap might have taken the sandwiches, though I never knew him to take anything off the table. But it must have been Snap." "No'm, it couldn't be," said Dinah. "It wasn't Snap." "How do you know?"
"I'm afraid mothah might not want us to go," said Lloyd. "Maybe it would be bettah to wait until anothah day and ask her." Rob and Betty had fallen a little behind the others, having spied a bunch of four-leafed clovers, and Rob had dismounted to pick them, so they did not hear the discussion that followed.
He leaned comfortably back against the warm chimney and half-closed his eyes. The patter of the rain on the roof made him drowsy. "Well," assented Lloyd, "I can't tell it with as many frills and flourishes as Betty could, but I remembah it bettah than most stories, because I had to write it from memory."
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