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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 knowed they hadn't had time to find you perlice I mean but I saw as you must have got tired waiting so long. So off I set till I met a woman who told me the way to the Sandle'ham road. I had a fancy you'd ask for it rather than come into the town if you thought they'd cotched me, and I was about right you see." "Is this the Sandle'ham road? Oh yes, Barbara told us it was," said the children.
Even Aunt Easter stepped gingerly, though she was wont to affirm, when assisting Miss Jinny in her toilet, an absolute contempt for Ben's commands. "So Ben ordered you out, Mammy?" Virginia would say mischievously. "Order me out! Hugh! think I'se skeered o' him, honey? Reckon I'd frail 'em good ef he cotched hole of me with his black hands.
"Then it has been as you said: Plummer was killed by the Sioux. But surely you noticed the direction they took?" "I did that same, and was following their trail whin I cotched sight of yersilf among the trees, and coom nigh shooting ye before asking for an inthrodooction." "Then they have passed nigh this spot?" asked the startled son. Tim partly turned and pointed behind him.
She got on horse, and Noah was leading her round about, but dey cotched him, and den, oh, lor', didn't dey jest beat him! "Say, Noah, show Massa Bold your po' back." They had begun to heal; I learned that his companions had anointed them with grease, and plastered them with leaves from a plant that grew abundantly in the forest.
Quashy followed his example with right good-will. When their modest meal was over they returned to the river. The little boy, on nearing it, ran anxiously forward in advance, and soon they perceived by his frantic gesticulations and shouts that something of interest awaited them there. "He's cotched!" cried Quashy, and darted off as if shot from a catapult.
Anyhow, it swum'd slowly along till it cotched sight o' Skinclip, when it went at him, an' looked at the back of his helmet in great astonishment, an' appeared to smell it, but evidently it could make nothin' of it. Then it looked all down his back with an equal want of appreciation. Arter that it came round to the front, and looked straight in at Skinclip's bull's-eye!
So I told 'em I's very sorry dat I couldn't 'commodate 'em, but de fact war we wanted to put de wood in it ourselves. When I said dat, one of de niggers begin to got sassy. I just informed 'em dat dey'd better make demselves scarce mighty quick, if dey didn't want dis pusson in dar wool. Dey didn't mind what was said, howsumever, and purty soon I cotched 'em runnin' off wid de wood-box.
Well, afore we comes alongside, captain had harpooned t' fish; an' says he, "Now, Robson, all ready! give into her again when she comes to t' top;" an' I stands up, right leg foremost, harpoon all ready, as soon as iver I cotched a sight o' t' whale, but niver a fin could a see.
The negro turned his face and Chad laughed it was Snowball, grinning and shaking his head: "No, Mars John, no suh!" he yelled. "It's all right fer YOU! YOU can git a furlough, but dis nigger ain't gwine to be cotched in no free State. 'Sides, Mars Dan, he gwine to get away, too."
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