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Updated: June 24, 2025
Unc., you kin pray all you wants, but ef you specs de Lawd ter listen you'se got ter pray like a man an not like a hog dat wants his dinnah. You'se 'sturbin everybody wuss dan you did wen you got sot on. I won hab it said my folks made a rumpus in dis time ob trouble. You'se got ter min me, Mr. Buggone, or I'se hab you took out de squar."
Yuh ought to have 'em across the Rio by sunup. Theah won't be any pursuit. Don Floristo isn't in any position to ordah it. I'll see yo'-all at Ma Thomas' dinnah table." "Where are you goin', Kid?" Lathum asked in astonishment. "Harry will help yo' get the cattle home," said The Kid. "I'm ridin' like all get-out to make Mistah Goliday, Esquiah, a social call." "But why " Wise began.
I tell you dat was de time what fotched me down, I done got rite on my old knees an' axed de good Laud to spar dis good Massa Tom. I knowed him the berry minute I laid my eyes on him. Many's de time I make his bed and cook his dinnah. I tell you all about dat.
"I don't remember anyone ever mentioning this. But it looks safe enough to cross. No more unpleasant surprises, I'm sure." At that moment a deep disembodied voice said, "Dinnah iss serffed, laddies and lassies, pliss shtep oop to da table." Everyone turned around to see who was speaking, but could see no one.
His teeth gleamed. I nodded. "Mr. Woods was here last night?" I asked, abruptly. "Yas, suh." "What time did he come in?" "Ah cain't raghtly say, Mist' Thompsin, but he had dinnah out heah 'bout seben-thuty," he answered. "Did he leave the club after that?" "Not 'til de telephone call come whut says Mist' Feldahson ben killt. Den he lef wif Mist' Brown an' Mist' Paisley."
And when their leader approached our heroes, he repeated the words "Dinnah iss serffed," and licked his lips with anticipation. He spoke again in that very strange accent, this time addressing Elephant: "Vatt iss a madder vi' chew? You nebber seen land sharks 'afore?" "N-N-N-No, w-w-w-we h-h-h-haven't," stuttered Elephant. "Habben chew?" the leader said, winking at his friends.
"We awe from the Soath," she said, "and we arrived this mawning, but we got this cyahd from the brokah just befo' dinnah, and so we awe rathah late." "Not at all; it's only nine o'clock," said Mrs. Leighton. She looked up from the card the young lady had given her, and explained, "We haven't got in our servants yet, and we had to answer the bell ourselves, and "
"Dey tells me dat dey done want dinnah fo' two, an' I starts to gib it to 'em, but de conductor says as how dey belonged to a party back heah, an' mebby de odder folks would want somethin' to eat, too. An', as anyhow, dey had bettah be tol'." "I'm hungry!" exclaimed Bert. "So'm I!" added Nan. "Dear me!" exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey. "I must go and see about them." "We will all go," said Mr. Bobbsey.
"Probably not," answered Professor Henderson. "It was a good idea, Washington. Pass me some, please." "Ain't Mr. Roumann comin' to dinnah?" "Not now," answered the scientist. "He will stay in the pilot house until I relieve him." "It seems mighty queer to be sitting down to a meal, and all the while we're shooting along at fifty miles a second," remarked Jack.
Calling to the colored man, Tom pointed to the stranger, who was almost out of sight down the road, and said earnestly: "Rad, do you see that fellow?" "I sho do, Massa Tom, but I sorter has t' strain my eyes t' do it. He's goin' laik my mule Boomerang does when he's comm' home t' dinnah." "That's right, Rad. Well, never let that man set foot inside our fence again!
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