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Have they killed many of the men or got hold of the women and children?" asked Lawrence, anxiously. "Yes, dey's kill a few ob de men, but not many, for some hab got into de huts, an' some into de corral, an' dey'll fight to de last. De savages am holdin' a palaver jist now see, dey's agwine to begin again. Screw your head roun' to de right an' you see."
Then he rose and took a strange attitude, such as Wallace had seen in comic pictures it was, in fact, the attitude of a Bowery tough. "Say, look here! If you want 'o set dis community by de ears agin, you do dat ting see? You play dat confidence game and dey'll rat ye sure!
"I guess dey'll be gone quite a while," she remarked, jerking her double chin toward the gap in the fence. "Folks like dat don't never remember about de dime." And she drew out her knitting. Ann Eliza could think of nothing to say. "Your sister she thinks a great lot of him, don't she?" her hostess continued. Ann Eliza's cheeks grew hot.
I 'spect we mus' ride like de win' in dis stretch ob de race; fer I had hearn der is a byroad ten miles furder on which leads inter a mighty wild place wid many windin' paths; an' ef de tiefs gets dar, dey'll sho' give us de slip." David Hester, having traveled this road before, corroborated the negro's words.
I'd 'a' had to went to my own cousins' fun'el 'thout nare co'set. Y' all gotta go right to y' all's mamas an' Miss Minerva dis very minute. I low dey'll settle yo' hashes. Don't y' all know dat Larroes ketch meddlers?" Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Black were sitting on Miss Minerva's veranda talking to her, and Lira and Frances were in the swing with Billy.
"I reckon I'll try it," said Benjamin after a final scrutiny. "If a squall does come up, we'll have to run for the shore mighty quick, that's all." They launched the boat speedily; as there was no wind, they had to row. As they pulled out, Braithwaite and Leon came down the road and began to launch the Murray boat. "If dem two gits caught in a squall dey'll hav a tam," grinned Mosey Louis.
"There'll be plenty to do that, I guess dey'd call it after ye in d' streets dey'll give ye th' ha! ha! Dey'll say Hermy Chesterton's brother's a quitter a quitter!" For a long moment Spike stood with bent head and hands tightly clenched, then crossing to the sideboard, he picked up his shabby cap. "Who's in my corner?" "Now you're talkin', Kiddo; I know as you " "Who's in my corner?"
"'All right, sez Aun' Nancy, 'I'll fetch you sump'n mo' nex' time. "'You bettah, sez Aun' Peggy, 'er e'se dey'll be trouble. Wat dis yer little pickaninny needs is ter see his mammy. You leabe 'im heah 'tel ebenin' en I'll show 'im his mammy. "So w'en Aun' Nancy had gone 'way, Aun' Peggy tuk 'n wukked her roots, en tu'nt little Mose ter a hummin'-bird, en sont 'im off fer ter fin' his mammy.
"Sis Rhody, she sez she done save you de bes' puffovers you ever tase, en ef'n you don' come 'long down, dey'll fall right flat." "Who is Sis Rhody?" inquired the boy, as he splashed the water on his face. "Who she? Why, she de cook."
"I'se gwine tell 'em I kin prove de gov'nor's de bes' man in de State by'splainin' er de tarif dat I kin prove it by'splainin' er de tarif so dey'll unnerstan' it ev'y word an' when I flirt my hank'chif dat time, Bob's gwine call out 'Yo' time's up, boss! an' I'se gwine answer back, 'Naw 'tain't, Bob, des lemme 'splain de tarif.
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