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I stopped till he had done, and then, all wet and glistening, the great dried head with its gaping jaws was replaced on the spike-nail Morgan had driven in the tree. "Dah, you 'top till water come and wash um down again, and den Pomp come and wash um up." These words of the boy set me thinking; and that night I asked my father about the probabilities of another flood.
At all events, he would go out until Crailey had come and left again, for he had no desire to behold the masquerader's return. So he exchanged his dressing-gown for a coat, fastened his collar, and had begun to arrange his cravat at the mirror, when, suddenly, the voice of the old negress seemed to sound close beside him in the room. "He's settin' dah waitin'!"
I will place it on my drum by the side of that of Macarthy." Then the army passed the swamp knee deep in water, and started on their way down to the Prah. Three miles further they crossed the river Dah at Agogo, where the water was up to their necks. The road was little more than a track through the forest, and many small streams had to be crossed.
Jim could hardly speak, but he says: "Mars Tom, you ain't jokin', en it's SO?" "No, I'm not, and it is so." Jim shivered again, and says: "Den dat Monday could be de las' day, en dey wouldn't be no las' day in England, en de dead wouldn't be called. We mustn't go over dah, Mars Tom. Please git him to turn back; I wants to be whah "
It was impossible to meet this subtle and dreadful enemy with spear or dah. "What is it?" cried Jack. "A cunning trick, a cruelly cunning trick," replied his father. "They are thrusting great burning bundles of dried reeds and grass before them. The draught comes up the stairs and keeps the air cool and sweet for them, while it drives suffocating smoke and heat upon us."
Bein' a high and mighty man in committees up dah in Sacramento, sah, I didn't know but what yo' might know as it might come befo' yo'." "I'll see about it," said Paul, with an odd, abstracted smile. "Shampoo dis mornen', sah?" "Nothing more in this line," said Paul, rising from his chair, "but something more, perhaps, in the line of your other duties.
They had passed, I thought, when a pause set my heart to jumping madly. Then came a low, cautious whisper: "You boy, what you doin' dah?" It was not the relief after all. It was the good old villainous-looking black cook, with a cup of coffee for Mr. Falk. "Put yo' head down dah," he whispered, "put yo' head down, boy."
They were followed by three or four score Bhutanese swordsmen, thick-set and not unlike Gurkhas in feature, with bare heads, legs and feet, and clad only in a single garment similar to their leader's and kilted up by a cord around the waist, from which hung a dah, a short sword or long knife. In rear of them trudged a number of coolies, some laden with bundles, others with baskets of fruit.
We must dry our clothes to-night if we can, and keep as dry as we can while we stay here, which may be for a day or two. To do that we must have a house, but it need not be a very good one. Joe!" "Yes, sah." "Build a fire right here." "Agin de big log dah, Mas' Sam?" pointing to the trunk of a great tree which had fallen in some earlier storm. "No, build it right here.
I ought to have sent a messenger on horseback half an hour ago," he added to Philip, "she will be transported with our victory. You must stop to breakfast, and see the excitement." The servant soon came back, with a wondering look and reported, "Miss Laura ain't dah, sah. I reckon she hain't been dah all night!" The Senator and Philip both started up.
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