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"I hope you will fall into good hands, but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name." It was early in May, when there came a man from Gordon's, who took me away to the Hall. My master said, "Good-bye, Darkie; be a good horse and always do your best."
"Don Miguel, who luckily had just come up from the saloon, being handy with his revolver from the rough times he had experienced, like myself, in Venezuela, settled another darkie; while little Johnson, the Englishman, caught up a long hand-spike, bigger than himself, and with it knocked down two of the Haytians to his own cheek.
I have undertaken to educate this yar darkie," here he stretched out a long arm, and laid his hand on Vespasian's woolly pate "and I'm bound to raise him to the Eu-ropean model." So I make tracks for the very court where I got the prime article three years ago, against a varmint that was breaking the seventh and eighth commandments over me, adulterating my patent and then stealing it. Blast him!"
The declining sun is shining through the tops of the poplars, the zest of daytime begins to soften into the hush and cool of evening, when they come leisurely sauntering through the grass that grows luxuriously beside the road. One after another they come quietly along Cherry and Brindle, Blossom and Darkie, Beauty and Crinkle, Daisy and Pearl.
'the darkie lass, as your father says. 'Little, says I; why, you needn't be ashamed to stand beside a grenadier. Trust the country for growing fine gals." "You are my uncle, then?" said Rhoda. "Tell me how my sister is. Is she well? Is she quite happy?" "Dahly?" returned old Anthony, slowly. "Yes, yes; my sister!" Rhoda looked at him with distressful eagerness.
I was loth to shoot the poor old creature, and I also did not like the idea of leaving him to die slowly of thirst; but I thought perhaps if I left him, he might recover sufficiently to travel at night at his own pace, and thus return to Wynbring, although I also knew from former sad experience in Gibson's Desert, that, like Badger and Darkie, it was more than probable he could never escape.
We will breakfast to-morrow morning, and you can be leaving at about one o'clock as if you had come to call at noon. There is nothing to fear; the gate-keepers love me as much as if they were my father and mother. Now I must go down and make tea." She beckoned to Lisbeth, who followed her out on to the landing. There Valerie whispered in the old maid's ear: "My darkie has come back too soon.
With respect to the relative position of Japhet and Ham perhaps I should say Ham and Japhet ultra-philanthropy has granted all the aspirations of the Ethiopian melodist: wish de legislator would set dis darkie free; Oh, what a happy place den de darkie world would be! We'd have a darkie parliament, An' darkie code of law, An' darkie judges on de bench, Darkie barristers and aw.
He loves its "meat," which is pork-tasted, and in young 'coons palatable enough, but in old ones rather rank. This, however, our "darkie" friend does not much mind, particularly if his master be a "stingy old boss," and keeps him on rice instead of meat rations. The 'coon-hunt is a "nocturnal" sport, and therefore does not interfere with the negro's regular labour.
There, tied to a cedar-stump, was Darkie. She recognized me at once, and whinnied again. There was nobody in sight. I did not even stop to think of Lu Hudson. I just ran to Darkie and untied her, and took her by the bridle. It was a fearful business to lead her down the rock steps, but she was as surefooted as a mule, and together we managed it somehow.
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