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I drapt my cap down on de een' o' de steps an' went up. She nuver opened her mouf; jes' stan' right still an' keep her eyes on my face. Fust, I couldn' speak; den I cotch my voice, an' I say, 'Marse Chan, he done got he furlough. "Her face was mighty ashy, an' she sort o' shook, but she didn' fall. She tu'ned 'roun' an' said, 'Git me de ker'ige! Dat wuz all.
If he's done got away, how am I to find him? If I sets up a yell to cotch his ear, like 'nuff de oders will hear it also likewise. Den if he hasn't got away what am de use ob bawlin' to him. Guess I won't bawl." So much was settled at least.
Among these the bailiff, now red with anger, shook his fist at the people and demanded the meaning of the disturbance. A small boy, his eyes round with excitement, piped up: "An't please yer worship, 'tis a wild Injun come from nowheer an' doin' all manner o' wickedness." "A wild Injun! Cotch him! Ring the 'larum bell! Put him in the stocks!" But the bailiff's commands passed unheeded.
Oh, sir, clear, pardon me this wan time; and if ever you cotch me doing the like agin, I'll give you lave to welt the sowl out of me." "Behave yourself, Barny Byrne." "I'm not touching you." "Yes, you are; didn't you make me blot my Copy?" "Ho, by the livin', I'll pay you goin' home for this." "Hand me the taws." "Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo what'll I do, at all at all!
The change was so sudden that the wrinkles got tangled up in the attempt, resulting in an expression of vague uncertainty. "You mean, Colonel, de hill whar we cotch de big coon?" "Yes," said the colonel encouragingly, ignorant of the coon, but knowing that there was only one hill.
I didn' wanter open de do', fer w'ite folks is monst'us pertickler 'bout dey smoke-'ouses; en ef de oberseah had a-come up en cotch me in dere, he mou't not wanter b'lieve I wuz des lookin' fer Dave. So I sorter knock at de do' en call' out ag'in: "'O Dave, hit's me Julius! Doan be skeered. Mars Dugal' wants yer ter come up ter de big house, he done 'skivered who stole de ham.
But jes you creep back into de bed, darlin', 'fore you cotch your death ob cold." "I will, mammy," Elsie said, doing as she was desired; "but please dress me as soon as the room is warm enough, won't you?" "Yes, darlin', kase ob course I knows you want to be up early o' Christmas mornin'. Ki! Miss Elsie, dat's a beautiful shawl you gave your ole mammy. I sha'n't feel de cold at all dis winter."
One of 'em come up into my neighborhood an' it seemed that befo' she come nature was a smilin' like she was waitin' fur her sweetheart. Well, me an' my wife went to hear her preach, an' she talked right well never hearn a woman talk better an' she cotch the folks. Worse than that, she cotch my wife an' turned my home into a hell, an' nature shut her eyes an' all war dark fur me.
Co'se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch 'im by de behime legs en slung 'im right in de middle er de brier-patch. Dar wuz a considerbul flutter whar Brer Rabbit struck de bushes, en Brer Fox sorter hang 'roun' fer ter see w'at wuz gwineter happen.
I'm a unit in creation, I is as I once heerd a school-board buffer say w'en he was luggin' me along to school; but he was too green, that buffer was, for a school-boarder. I gave 'im the slip at the corner of Watling Street, an' they've never bin able to cotch me since." "But you must be known by some name," said I. "What do your companions call you?" "They call me bad names, as a rule.
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