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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Clebber beast!" shouted Quashy, who had stood with his ten fingers expanded, his great mouth open, and his whole emotional soul glaring out of his monstrous eyes. "Well done!" echoed Lawrence, who was scarcely less pleased than his servant.
"I should have thought, Quashy," he said, with a return of his wonted gravity, "that a man of a thoughtful and contemplative turn of mind like you would have acquired the power of expressing almost any idea in Spanish by this time." "T'ank you for de compl'ment, massa," replied Quashy, "but I not so clebber as you t'ink. Der am some tings in flosuffy dat beats me.
"Now, Toc, how much does two and three make?" "Six," replied Thursday, without a moment's hesitation. "Oh, you booby!" said Sally. "P'ease, mum, he ain't booby, him's dux," said Dan. "But he's a booby for all that, sir. You hold you tongue, Dan'l, an' tell me what three and two makes." "P'ease, mum, I can't," answered Dan, folding his hands meekly; "but p'r'aps Charlie can; he's clebber you know.
So w'en I hear dat I tink's to myself, `oh! you British hipperkrit, you's not so clebber as you t'inks, for Ebony's got to wind'ard ob you, an' wid dat I slips out ob do back winder an' run to you's cottage, an' ask if you'd like to have a ride on my back as usual, an' you say yis, an' now you's here, an' I dessay de cappin's lookin' for you."
To have talked with me, or warned me, or let me enter his house, would have been fatal. His only resource lay in thrashing me off his premises as you have seen. How he will explain matters to the spies I know not, but I can trust him for that." "Das most awrful clebber!" exclaimed Ebony, his every feature broadening with delight at the success of the ruse. "But what are we to do now?" asked Mark.
We might see something else." "Eh?" "I said give me the powder and a bullet. Halloa! Where's the ammunition?" "Eh? Now where I put dat amnisham, Mass' George? I dunno." "Why, you must have laid it down on the ground when we came after the alligator." "Sure I did, Mass' George. Ah, you are clebber boy. Come 'long, we find um we go back." "No, no, stop. I want that head carried home."
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