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I dess thought I'd tell you 'bout dis heah." Eddring turned at his desk for a moment. "Take this over to the telegraph office at once, Jack," said he. "It's a message to Colonel Blount. I want to see him; and I want you to stay around, so I can get you when he comes up."
"He looks like too big a boy to make such a disturbance on a man's ship." "Oh, I don't think, Captain Briggs, he will do it again," said Mother Bunker. "I dess wanted to sleep," murmured Mun Bun, holding up his spoon. "Next time you want your watch below," said Captain Briggs, shaking his head, "you report to me first. Do you hear?"
I stared at him angrily. "What put that into your head?" I demanded. "I dunno, suh; hit dess look dat-a-way to me, suh." "You're a fool," I said, sharply. "No, suh, I ain' no fool, Mars' George. I done see de sign! Yaas, suh, I done see de sign." "What sign?" The old man chuckled, looked slyly at my left hand, then chuckled again. "Mars' George, yo' is wearin' yo' weddin'-ring now!" "A ring!
"He mus' 'a' come thataway," she said. "I bet nobody 't all ain' train him; he do whut he want to hisse'f. That Gammire don' ast nobody to train him." "Oh, goodness!" Florence said, with sudden despondency. "It's awful!" "Whut is?" "To think of as lovely a dog as this having to face grandpa!" "'Face' him!" Kitty Silver echoed forebodingly. "I reckon you' grampaw do mo'n dess 'face' him."
"Mamma, I dess I'd better do to bed now, betause if I don't I shall be too seepy to turn to Aunt Taty's wedding to-mowwow." "Dear me!" cried Rose, catching the child up. "This is simply dreadful! what a mother I am! Things are come to a pass indeed, if babes and sucklings have to ask to be put to bed. Baby, you ought to have been christened Nathan the Wise."
And I've got a hen, and I'll give you all the eggs she lays, to cook, you know. Only the hen's runned away, and I couldn't find my house any more, and the hammer tumbled down, and I lost my shoe. I know where the hammer is, I dess, and to-morrow I'll go back and get it." Here the expression of Archie's face changed.
Ring do' bell. I say, I say: 'Walk right in, Mista Ridgways. Slip me dollah bill dess like that! Mista Sammerses an' Mista Plummers, an' some nem others, they all show class. Look Mista Sammerses' spectickles made turtle back; fancy turtle, too. I ast Miss Julia; she tell me they fancy turtle. Gol' rim spectickles ain't in it; no ma'am!
'Yes, 'deed, kine frien', she say, she say, when they ast her: 'Miss Julia, ma'am, they say, 'I like please strike a match fer to light my cigareet if you please, ma'am. She say: 'Light as many as you please, kine frien', she say, she say. She say: 'Smell o' cigareet dess deligh'ful li'l smell, she say.
Mista Sammerses' spectickles jes' them rims on his spectickles alone I bet they cos' mo'n all whut thishere young li'l Mista Dills got on him from his toes up an' his skin out. I bet Mista Plummers th'ow mo' money aroun' dess fer gittin' his pants press' than whut Mista Dills afford to spen' to buy his'n in the firs' place! He lose his struggle, 'cause you' Aunt Julia, she out fer the big class.
Dess tell me dat? But dere's 'nough quality dis here side de fam'ly to keep yer a good Dem'crat, honey " and Aunt M'randa, muttering, glared at Tom. For Emily Louise was gazing into a gulf wider than the river rolling between home and papa, a gulf called war; nor did Emily Louise know, as Aunt M'randa knew, that it was a baby's little fists clutching at Aunt Cordelia that had bridged that gulf.
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