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Gossifus! Wha wha what become ob us widout Dan?" "Dat's jus what I tinks," added Quin. "You does de tinkin, and we does de wuck." "I shall do my part of the work. Now listen to me, and I will tell you how I think the work ought to be divided. We'll go to bed at nine o'clock, and turn out at five." "Dem's um," nodded Cyd.
"I sure am hurt," insisted Merley. "Why, I can hardly move now," and he seemed to stiffen all over, though there was no visible sign of injury. "Why doesn't someone get a doctor?" a boy in the crowd asked. "There'll be one in de hurry-up wagon!" exclaimed another urchin. "A feller in a white suit dem's doctors. I know, cause me fadder was in de 'ospital onct."
"Can't we go with you, Mammy? We'll be good, an' not laugh at 'em shoutin'." "I dunno wat yer gwine loff at 'em shoutin' fur; efn yer don't min' de loff gwine ter be turnt some er deze days, an' dem wat yer loffs at hyear, dem's de ones wat's gwine ter do de loffin' wen we gits up yon'er!
And she swept up the stairs so stately, that Scipio was moved to say slyly: "Dem's de kind of ladies, Marse Richard, I jes dotes t' wait on!" Of the affair at King William's School I shall tell later. We had some dozen guests staying at the Hall for the ball. At dinner my grandfather and the gentlemen twitted her, and laughed heartily at her apt retorts, and even toasted her when she was gone.
Not been stewed long enough, perhaps." The head-man gave an order, and presently a woman at the cooking fire outside brought another calabash into the hut, and set it at the little sailor's feet. The head-man examined and explained: "Dem's dug chop, too-plenty-much fine. You fit?" "I fit," said Kettle; "that'll suit me down to the ground, daddy.
"I'm sure I feel as you said I must," Hugh, continued, and Sam went on: "'Tell him I loves him; and ef he lives I'll be his wife. Dem's her very words, nigh as I can 'member but what is massah goin' to do?" he continued in some surprise, as Hugh attempted to rise. "Do? I'm going to Alice," was Hugh's reply, as with a moan he sank back again, too weak to rise alone.
He even allowed Dab to pick out a line for him, and to put on the hook and sinker; and Dick Lee showed him how to fix his bait, "so de fust cunner dat rubs agin it won't knock it off. Dem's awful mean fish. Good for nuffin but 'teal bait."
"Dem's de cloves," shouted Dick, as he darted forward, and picked it up. The fingers of Fuz almost unconsciously imitated those of his elder brother, and with a like result. "Dat's de cinnamon. If de oder feller didn't git de tea an' de sal'ratus! Whar's de nutmegs?"
The beautiful horses were stepping as one, a delight to the eye, making nothing whatever of the frail vehicle at their heels. But Sam's eye lingered longest on the small stately figure of his mistress. She sat very straight, her head high, the little parasol poised against the sun, the other hand clasping the hat ribbon. "Dem's quality foh sure!" said Sam with conviction.
A man riding through the mountains of Tennessee stopped one evening to water his horse before a little cabin, outside of which sat an old colored woman watching the antics of a couple of piccaninnies playing near by. "Good-evening, Aunty," he called. "Cute pair of boys you've got. Your children?" "Laws-a-massy! Mah chillun! 'Deed, dem's mah daughteh's chilluns. Come hyah, you boys."