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As it was all in the family, Dan ventured to suggest to him that, as he was now seated at a gentleman's table, he should behave in a gentlemanly manner, and not eat bacon from his fingers, when a knife and fork had been especially provided for this purpose. Cyd accepted the rebuke, and thereafter imitated the manners of his companions, even carrying his ideas of gentility to extremes.
As we have before observed, he had not been in the habit of doing his own thinking, and, consequently, he was not skilled in reasoning from effect to cause. "Suppose we had left the boats, Cyd," added Dan. "Den we shouldn't hab em wid us, keepin de boat back." "At six o'clock in the morning, Colonel Raybone will be ready to start on his trip.
"Heaven bless you, Dandy!" "And I'm going to take Cyd with me, too, if he will go; but he don't know any thing about it yet." "When shall we start?" "I don't know; not till master goes a hunting again. I will tell you all about it in a few days." Lily was content to leave every thing with Dandy, in whom she had more confidence than in any other person, for he was her only real friend.
Dan was worn out with anxiety and long watching, and as the waters of the bay were comparatively smooth, the wind having subsided to a gentle breeze, he gave the helm to Cyd, and slept three hours upon the floor of the standing room, with a cushion under his head. At daybreak, Point au Fer light, which was marked on Dan's map, lay directly ahead of them.
"I must do something, or I should be very unhappy." "Well, Lily, you shall have your own way; and while you are clearing off the table, Cyd and I will prepare the lady's cabin." "The what?" asked Lily. "Your cabin; you shall have a room all to yourself." Dan left the cabin, followed by Cyd.
"With bloodhounds and slave-hunters on your track. No, Cyd; we should certainly be taken if we did that." "What shall we do, Dan?" murmured Lily. "We shall certainly be taken if we stay here." "No; we have beaten off the slave-hunters twice, and we can do it again.
Bertha soon settled the question so far as Lily was concerned, by declaring that she must live with her, and go to school at the village, for she had become strongly attached to the fair fugitive, and would not think of permitting her lot to be cast among those who might possibly be unkind to her. There was less difficulty in disposing of Dan and Cyd.
Cyd, who was the bow oarsman, opened his mouth from ear to ear, displaying a dual set of ivories which a dentist would have been proud to exhibit as specimens of his art, and with a vigorous thrust of the boat-hook, forced the light craft far out into the stream, thus disturbing the repose of a young alligator which was sunning himself upon a snag.
"I intend to keep a watch night and day while we stay in this place, if it should be for a year." "Hossifus! What's de use of keepin de watch?" yawned Cyd, as he stretched himself, and opened his mouth wide enough to take in a small alligator. "Suppose half a dozen slave-hunters should come up here while we are all asleep!" replied Dan, sharply. "'Pose dey come when we're all awake what den?"
"If you can't hold your tongue, I'll throw you overboard!" "Possifus! Ugh! Wha wha wha " "Come, Cyd," interposed Quin, in a low tone, "don't make a noise. If you do, we shall all be lost." "Dis chile's awful skeered. I done wish I hadn't come," replied Cyd, in a gentler tone; but the words trembled on his lips. "Quin," said Dan.
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