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"An' Peyton Winburn swars ter dat?" asked the woman, eagerly. "Yes, certainly." "Didn't I tell yer dat Nimbus was safe, Miss Mollie?" she cried, springing from her chair. "Don't yer see how dey cotch derselves? Ef der's ennybody on de green yairth dat knows all 'bout dis Ku Kluckin' it's Peyton Winburn, and dat ar Sheriff Gleason.
"Oh, never you mind about the chicken thieves," grumbled Jack Ness. "Has somebody been stealing chickens again?" asked Dick, remembering that they had suffered several times from such depradations. "Yes, da has took two chickens las' Wednesday, foah on Saturday, an' two on Monday. Jack he laid fo' 'em wid a shotgun, but he didn't cotch nobody."
I drapt my cap down on de een' o' de steps an' went up. She nuvver 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.
"No, what?" asked the ladies, expectantly. "Couple of wil' turkeys! Dey was roostin' near his trap, and Mike ain't never had a catch in it this year, so he was feelin' like a mighty poor kind of a trapper, when dese turkeys lit on a line wid his eye. It was some job to cotch bote on em, 'cause one allus flies away soon's a sound is hearn. But, Mike he jest says to hisself, 'By gum!
One of the other men struck up one of those unmeaning songs, common among the slaves. "Mas'r see'd me cotch a coon, High boys, high! He laughed to split, d'ye see the moon, Ho! ho! ho! boys, ho! Ho! yo! hi e! oh!" The singer appeared to make up the song to his own pleasure, generally hitting on rhyme, without much attempt at reason; and the party took up the chorus, at intervals,
But "Marster William’s" senses were too soundly locked in sleep to heed the faithful creature, and after standing still a moment, she said to herself, "I’m mighty feared he’ll cotch cold." So back she went to her cabin and from the same "red chist" took a many-colored patchwork quilt. This she carried to the house and spread carefully over Mr.
They all laughed at this, Dinah joining in, and then Freddie explained what he had said. "No, sah! Yo' don't cotch me on no ice-cream boat!" declared Dinah. "I'll go in a sled, but I ain't gwine t' fall down no hole in de ice and be bit by a fish! No, sah!" There was more laughter, and then the plum pudding was served.
But des let 'n'er nigger so much ez stick der chin 'cross de yard palin's, en, bless yo' soul, you'll year Miss F'raishy blaze out like de woods done cotch afire." Mingo paused here to chuckle over the discomfiture and alarm of the imaginary negro who had had the temerity to stick his supposititious chin over the fence. Then he went on
"And Mark, too!" went on the old hunter. "Well, this is a surprise. No, I didn't have any luck that is, what you could call luck. There's been a weasel carrying off our chickens and killing them, and I went out to shoot it." "Did you cotch it, Mistah Sudds?" asked Washington anxiously. "I didn't 'cotch' it," answered Andy with a grin. "I killed it. I guess the chickens will be safe now, Wash.
"Oh, the divil a bit I'd ha' bit her only for the cross luck with me, for I wanted to schame off out o' the place, and escape; but she wouldn't let me, and cotch me and brought me back." "I should think she would, indeed," said Dick, laughing. "What next?"
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