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"I tell you so, Massa Easy," said Mesty: "damn rascals, they forget they come down fire musket at us every day: by all de powers, Mesty not forget it." "Ship ahoy!" cried one of the men on shore. "What do you want?" replied Jack. "Have pity on us, sir mercy!" exclaimed the other men, "we will return to our duty." "Debbil doubt 'em!" "What shall I say, Mesty?"
We go up hill trough de hood. We see ten, twelve, Injin almos' naked, eatin', drinkin', dancin', an' yell like debbil. Capten say, "Stay here, Krasippe; I get hind bush." Capten creep trough bush, light cannle, an' bust out trough circle to middle of fire. I see fifty Injin fright dat way. Dose Injin not frighten much. I see one man jump on capten, trow him down, raise hatchet to kill him.
They cried a greeting to Uncle Moses, and I was not a little amazed when one of them came grinning up to me and said: "Massa Bold, we bofe free now. Huh! dat debbil nebber cotch us no mo'." 'Twas Jacob, the man who had escorted me from Spanish Town and been captured with me. He told me that he had been put to work in the plantation, but had run away on the second day, along with another man.
Ishmael started and turned around, and, to his inexpressible amazement, stood face to face with old Katie. "Oh, Marse Ishmael, honey, is dis you? Is dis indeed you, or only de debbil deceiving of me!" she exclaimed, panting for breath as she caught him by the greatcoat, and grasping him as the drowning grasp a saving plank. "Katie!" exclaimed Ishmael, in immeasurable astonishment.
"Who de debbil was dat?" asked Zeb, speaking to Rosalind. She made no answer and appeared to be lost in a reverie. Zeb repeated his question but failed to elicit any reply. Muttering something to himself, he permitted her silence to remain undisturbed. There were two horses in the party, and upon one of these Rosalind had been placed.
A rude, rough voice it was; but it is superfluous to say that, to the ears of Ben Brace and his youthful companion, it sounded sweeter than any music to which they had ever listened. The words "Ship ahoy!" were soon succeeded by others, proceeding from the same lips. "Gorramity!" spoke the strange voice, "who de debbil call dar? Dat some'dy in de boat? Dat you, Capten? Am it you, Massa Grow?"
"If dey vas cast for him, dey don't gount for me, hey?" "No." "Den I vill yust der bolice got und raise der debbil mit dot Poozy." "Hol' on!" the Croak replied. "If dey was ter make a mistake about de ballots, an' s'posen 'stead of deir bein' hisn dey happens to be yourn, den if dey're cast fer you dey wont count fer him, will dey?" Mr.
Harry, Miss coz he's done tuckered out, but I'se scared not to, coz once 'fore I didn't wake him when somebody want him an' I ain't nebber done hit no more. Go on dar, Jim. Yes sah, Mars Harry Abbott he's a debbil, Miss, when he's mad, 'deed he is, jest lak de old Mars he's daddy.
"They're wonderful, these mountaineers, with their woods-craft." "Debbil craf, mo' like," said Neb, a bit resentful, still. Frank smiled at the thought of his dear Aunt, precise and elegant, compelled to spend the night in a construction camp beneath white-canvas. "What did Aunt 'Lethe think about a night in tents?" he asked.
"I's seen de ha'nt, Marse Rad; de sho nuff ha'nt all dressed in black an' risin' outen de spring-hole." "You fool!" Radnor cried. "Get on your feet and behave yourself." "It was de debbil," Mose chattered. "His face was black an' his eyes was fire." "You've been drinking, Mose," Radnor said sharply.
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