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"Along wid yer, and keep yer tongue tween yer teeth, chile, or you'll cotch it." So Frances, drawing Tidy along with her, and followed by the whole troop, turned into the lane that led down to the negro quarters, and as they saunter along, I will tell you about her.
Perhaps Washington White's Shanghai rooster did not care to make the trip to the moon, or perhaps the fowl had not yet seen enough of this earth. At any rate, when he flew from the projectile, uttering loud crows, and landed some distance away, he began to run back toward the coop in the rear of the yard. "Cotch him, cotch him!" yelled the colored man. "Dat's a valuable bird!"
Ned did not lift a rein. "What, you black rascal! You won't obey me?" Ned swung on his seat. "No, indeedy, Miss Lilly, I ain't a-gwine 'thout young Miss. The Dutch kin cotch me an' hang me, but I ain't a-gwine 'thout Miss Jinny." Mrs. Colfax drew her shawl about her shoulders with dignity. "Very well, Virginia," she said. "Ill as I am, I shall walk.
He recognised his visitor as the boy for whose benefit he had made himself stiff for two days. The keeper added further damaging facts. "Bin here every day, he 'as, sir, for the last week. Well, I says to myself, supposition is he'll come once too often. He'll come once too often, I says. And then, I says, I'll cotch him. And I cotched him."
"I reckon I won't let 'em cotch me," said Paul. "Where be you gwine next?" "Down to Cairo, I reckon; though I go wherever the General sends me." "May be you would do a little chore for me, get me some pins, needles, and thread?" "It is mighty skittish business, but I'll see what I can do," said Paul. Having obtained his information, his next business was to get away.
"Den ole marster lost he eyes. D' yo' ever hyah 'bout dat? Heish! Didn' yo'? Well, one night de big barn cotch fire. De stables, yo' know, wuz under de big barn, an' all de hosses wuz in dyah.
"Oh, Massa Tom!" exclaimed Eradicate, as soon as the young inventor entered. "Dat Koku he he he done gone and cotch me by de collar ob mah coat, an' den he lif' me up, an' he sot me down so hard so hard dat he jar loose all mah back teef!" and Eradicate opened his mouth wide to display his gleaming ivories. "Eradicate, he no can come quick.
Not a word of this communication must be overheard by any chance listener," said Lord Vincent. And to poor old Katie's consternation he passed swiftly to the outer door of the suite of rooms, locked it and put the key in his pocket and returned to the dressing room, the door of which remained open. "Dere! if I aint cotch like an old rat in a trap, you may take my hat! Don't care!
The mule suddenly came to life, and was about to start off. "I done thought dat would cotch yo', Boomerang," chuckled Eradicate. "Wait a minute, Rad," called Tom, who was tearing open the envelope of the telegram. "I might want to send an answer back by you. I wonder who is wiring me now?"
So one night I cotch' 'im down by de swamp on his way ter a candy-pullin', en I th'owed a goopher mixtry on 'im, en turnt 'im ter a mule, en got a po' w'ite man ter sell de mule, en we 'vided de money. But I doan want ter die 'tel I turn Brer Primus back ag'in.
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