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He looks at me. "'Eldorado-o-o at the half by three lengths! Anvil-l-l second by two lengths! King Ja-a-ames third! sings the operator. "I looks at ole man Johnson. He don't look at me. He looks up at the ceilin' 'n' his lips is goin' like he's prayin'. Me? I'm wipin' the sweat off my face. "'Eldorado-o-o in the stretch a half a length! sings the operator. 'Anvil-l-l second a nose!
But he continued dreamily, "There would have to be considerable wire-pullin'." "Where would the wires be?" says I sternly. "And who would pull 'em?" "Oh, most anywhere!" says he, lookin' dreamily up onto the kitchen ceilin', as if wires wus liable to be let down anywhere through the plasterin'. Says I, "Should you have to go to pullin' wires?" "Of course I should," says he.
So, when the bargain was made, 'Now, says the colonel to the divil, 'give me all the money I want. 'As much as you like, says Owld Nick; 'how much will you have? 'You must fill me that room, says he, pointin' into a murtherin' big room that he emptied out on purpose 'you must fill that room, says he, 'up to the very ceilin' with goolden guineas. 'And welkem, says the divil.
"And at last up I got, and began walkin' about the room, lookin' at this and peepin' at that, to amuse my mind, ye'll understand. And at last what sud I do but peeps into Madam Crowl's bedchamber. "A grand chamber it was, wi' a great four-poster, wi' flowered silk curtains as tall as the ceilin', and foldin' down on the floor, and drawn close all round.
"'Which I'll do better than that, returns Cherokee, as he snaps the deck in the box, 'I'll let you fix the limit to suit yourse'f. Make it the ceilin' if the sperit moves you. "'That's gen'rous! says Holliday.
Dick didn't say anything at first, but he give the stranger a long an' a curious look, as though he was tryin' to place him. He looked so long that both me an' the ol' man noticed it. "I don't care to play," sez Dick, blowin' a ring o' smoke to the ceilin'.
But I whispered, "Le's do what the rest do, Josiah, and we'll come out all right." But we had a dretful scare, for right whilst we wuz partakin' of the choice Japan viands a loud rumblin' sound wuz hearn, and I see even as we rushed to the door the timbers of the ceilin' part and then come together agin and the great bronze chandelier swing back and forth.
Much 'ead as the bloomin' 'eathen 'ave. Let's 'ave a look at 'er." He scratched a match and the look of astonishment that Dave found on his face, as he stared about the inclosure, caused him to laugh, in spite of their dilemma. "H'ivory, walrus h'ivory! Walls, floor and ceilin' all h'ivory. Who'd ever thought of that!" muttered the old seaman. "Wood'll burn and iron'll rust; but h'ivory! h'ivory!
Our Master was what white folks call a "miser". I remembah one time, he hid $3,000, between de floor an' de ceilin', but when he went fur it, de rats had done chewed it all up into bits. He used to go to de stock auction, every Monday, 'n he didn't weah no stockings. He had a high silk hat, but it was tore so bad, dat he held de top n' bottom to-gether wid a silk neckerchief.
And Josiah not havin' anything to do evenin's only to set and look at the ceilin'. Every single night when I would go home from the meetin' house, Josiah would tackle me on it, on the danger of allowin' wimmen to ventur out of her spear in Meetin' House matters, and specially the Conference. It begin to set in New York the very day we tackled the meetin' in Jonesville with a extra grip.
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