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It would not be high tide till midnight, and so they prolonged their excursion purposely, so as to use up the time. On reaching the schooner they were welcomed by Captain Corbet. "I declar, boys," said he, "I'm getting to be a leetle the biggest old fool that ever lived. It's all this accident. It's onmanned me.
I jes' declar' to you, Elder an' frens, dat since she took hole, de business am rollm' up an' it gettin' too big fer both ob us. Dat's whar de shoe pinches. I ain't loss notin'. I'se made a heap mo' by doin' fer young Missy. In dis 'fabulation, I doesn't want no 'flections on her, kase dey wouldn't be fair. Now, Kern, you'se right smart. You'se had my 'proval eber sence you took a shine ter Sissy.
"Le' me see dat thing!" He seized the jacket and held it up. "Lord, Lord! I 's glad to see it," he said. "I ain' see it for so long. It 's like home. Whar did you git dis thing, son! I 'd jest like to see it once mo' come home leadin' de field." "Well, you shall see it doing that to-morrow," said the young fellow, boastfully, his face alight with pleasure. "I declar' I 'd gi' my watch to see it."
"I never screamed before, and I don't think I shall ever scream again: I don't know how I have been so weak to-night." "Weakness always draws out kindness," said Edwin. "I would rather be weak than obtuse," said Bessie. "But it is better to be only obtuse than both. I know someone who was both." "Well, what was I to think, and what could I do?" "Nothing better than you did make a declar "
They say he's been mighty bad off lately, an' what he's got won't more'n half pay his debts. I reckon the widder an' chillen'll hev ter 'homestead it' the rest of their lives." "Yer don't tink so? Wal, I do declar', hit's too bad. Ez rich ez he was, an' now ter come down ter be ez pore ez Nimbus p'raps poorer!" "It's mighty hard, that's sure.
I rowed over frum the island this mornin', and I declar' ter goodness, once or twice I thought I'd swamp." Sam slipped out of the bank without speaking to the captain, whom, indeed, since the episode of the melon patch, he had no great desire to encounter.
An now, I declar, if I ain't gittin to be a confirmed wanderer agin, same as I was in the days of my halcyon an shinin youth. Besides, I have a kine o' feelin as if I'd be a continewin this here the rest of all my born days." "I hope you won't feel homesick," remarked Bart, sympathetically. "Homesick," repeated the captain. "Wal, you see thar's a good deal to be said about it.
Dey tuk de las' name frum de old marster dat owned 'em. I lived dar wid 'em 'til de chullun drew dey parts an' us was 'vided out. While I was wid old marster, he let Miss Rachel dat was his wife have me fer de house. She larned me how to cook an' wait on de table, an' I declar', she call me her ver' smartest gal!
In the little room next the kitchen he heard his stepmother scolding a small negro servant, and he broke in good-humouredly upon her discourse. "All right, ma?" he called. Marthy Burr turned and came towards him. She had aged but little, and her gaunt figure and sharp face still showed the force of her indomitable spirit. "I declar' if 'tain't you, Nick!" she exclaimed.
On rainy days we wuz gib a certain 'mount ob weavin' ter do en had ter git hit don'. I dunno how ter read er rite. De white folks didn' 'low us ter l'arn nuthin'. I declar' you bettuh not git kotch wid a papah in you han'. Ef I had half a chance lak you chilluns hab, I'd go ter bed wid mah books." "Our Marster 'lowed us ter go ter chuch.
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