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Updated: June 12, 2025
It wuz a week er two befo' he could git a chance ter speak ter her ag'in; but fine'ly he cotch her down by de spring one day, en sezee: "'Dilsey, w'at fer yer won' speak ter me, en purten' lack yer doan see me? Dilsey, yer knows me too well fer ter b'lieve I 'd steal, er do dis yuther wick'ness de niggers is all layin' ter me, yer knows I would n' do dat, Dilsey.
"Yes sar, Marse Mahcy, it was Julius done dat yellin', an' I done it kase I aint want Cap'n Beardsley to cotch you in de house," answered the boy, as he laid out his strength on the oars, and sent the boat swiftly away from the bank. "Are you sure that Beardsley was with those men?" asked Marcy earnestly.
Chunk, who was stuffing a chicken and cornbread into a haversack, reassured her. "Doan you worry, Miss Lou," he said. "Dis yere chicken gwine ter foller 'im right slam troo eberyting till hit cotch up," and he galloped after his new "boss" in a way to make good his words. Miss Lou sank wearily on the doorstep of Aun' Jinkey's cabin where the reader first made her acquaintance.
I kin go frough dat ma'sh blindfolded in de night an' cotch a possum airy time along airy one ob dem fences;but dis yer foolin' wid lan's on paper is too much for Chad. 'Fo' Gawd, I doan' know!" Chad on his own Cabin Floor
'Ay, says I, 'an' we'll be gettin' along a deal better, mum, says I, 'if you bail. So I kep' her bailin', Davy," the skipper concluded, with a long sigh and a sad wag of the head, "from Herring Head t' Wolf Cove. An', well, lad, she didn't quite cotch me, for she hadn't no time t' waste, but, as I was sayin', she cast a hook." "You're well rid o' she," said I.
I nebber did see sich a d d bug he kick and he bite every ting what cum near him. Massa Will cotch him fuss, but had for to let him go gin mighty quick, I tell you den was de time he must ha got de bite. I didn't like de look ob de bug mouff, myself, no how, so I wouldn't take hold ob him wid my finger, but I cotch him wid a piece ob paper dat I found.
Tom's voice trailed off into a whisper and he swayed on his feet. "Cotch him!" cried Eradicate. "Cotch him! Massa Tom's hurt!" and only just in time did Mr. Peterson clutch the young inventor in his arms. For Tom, white of face, had fallen back in a dead faint. "Carry him into the house!" cried Mr. Swift, as he came running to where Mr. Peterson was loosening Tom's collar.
The submarine boy felt confident that, in a stretch of trouble, he could thrash this guide of his in very short order. "Ah might jess well tell yo' wheah we am gwine, sah," volunteered the mulatto, presently. "Yes," Benson retorted, drily. "I think you may." "Marse Truax, sah, he done hab er powah ob trouble, sah, las' wintah, wid rheumatiz, sah! He 'fraid he gwine cotch it again dis wintah, sah.
"Git up in de mawnin' singin', an' de cat cotch you befo' night," Janey had said oracularly, when Allie ran out into the kitchen, that morning before breakfast, with the refrain of one of Charlie's songs upon her lips. "What nonsense, Janey!" said Allie, laughing at the strange, old-time saying.
When he saw the black figure as he thought, on his line, he let out a shriek that could have been heard for a mile, at the same time springing to his feet and starting on a sprinting pace for some hiding place, yelling, as he ran, to his companion: "Hyah Bill, git away from dar; git up an' cut. I'se done cotch de debbil on my hook."
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