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"You come ofer to my house since Ennis he no coming. Dese clothes is from my ole vomans. Mebbe ye look like like de dooce in dem, but dat's better as to freeze to death. An you vants a big breakfass so you goes vid me along. Hey dere! Joe! If Ennis he come you tell him come ofer to me, ye hear?" A few minutes later Madge was trudging over the beaten snow by the side of her huge companion.
I said. "No, Mass' George, but I dreffle hungly 'gain. Oh! Dem ugly tief 'teal de gun. No get duck for breakfass, eh?" "Let's think about escaping and getting back to the house before these savages. Ah, it's getting light."
My reverie was interrupted by Pomp, who said briskly "Now, Mass' George, what you tink?" "We must get across the river at once." Pomp made a grimace. "How we 'wim ober dah wid de 'gator all awaiting to hab us for breakfass, Mass' George?" I shuddered as I thought of the task, but it seemed as if that was the only thing to do, and then tramp along the opposite bank downward. "What are you doing?"
I think it was at Richmond, Virginia, that I was awakened by the negro porter shaking me very gently and repeating, in a pleasant, monotonous voice: "Teleg'am foh you, suh! Teleg'am foh Mistuh Gilland, suh. 'Done call you 'lev'm times sense breakfass, suh! Las' call foh luncheon, suh. Teleg'am foh " "Heavens!" I muttered, sitting up in my bunk, "is it as late as that! Where are we?"
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