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"Does you-all mean dat Carlo fell down de hole?" asked the colored coal- wagon driver. "No, Carlo is a dog," explained Mirabell. "He got tangled up in my Lamb's string, and she fell down the hole. I haven't named my Lamb yet. She's on wheels." "On wheels?" cried the man. "A Lamb on Wheels? Well, I 'clar to goodness dat's de fustest time I ebber done heah ob a t'ing laikdat!"
What yer s'pose dem fer, 'Liab? Dunno? I should tink not. House logs fer de church, 'Liab. Make it jes ez big ez yer wants. Dar 'tis. Only gib me some few shingles an' a flo', an' dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de 'postles ebber hed ter preach in." "An' de school, Nimbus?" timidly. "Shuah 'nough. Why I nebber tink ob dat afo'? An' you de teacher! Now you is talkin', 'Liab, certain shuah!
Nobody ebber troubled long wid dat complaint. Do you know, massa, dat de bery best t'ing for dat is a little cheerful s'iety. I t'ink you'll be de better ob me."
Pomp settled that, for he came back to me suddenly, and said "See Mass' George put de gun dah!" "You are sure, Pomp?" I said, as he stood pointing his black finger at the bush. "Yes, Pomp ebber so sure." "Did you find any alligator marks?" "No, Mass' George, nowhere." "Then some one must have come and stolen it while we were eating."
Suddenly he threw up his hands and staggered back from the instrument, turning a pallid face upon his companions. "What done happened yo', Perfesser?" cried Washington White. "What done skeer yo' now? Dis suah am de startlin'est place dat we ebber got into. Gollyation! Ain't dat moon risin', dough?" "It is no moon!" declared the professor. "A most mysterious thing," Mark said.
She came forward pertly, with a young babe upon her arm. "Well, Lorency, Mr. Ware says you have made me a present since I was here?" "Yah! yah! Marse Desmit, dat I hab! Jes' de finest little nigger boy yer ebber sot eyes on. Jes' you look at him now," she continued, holding up her brighteyed pickaninny. "Ebber you see de beat ub dat?
"The master and the man must change places for a season." "I don't t'ink he look a bit like me," said Caesar, with disgust, as he surveyed his young master with his new complexion. "Stop a minute, Caesar," said the peddler, with the lurking drollery that at times formed part of his manner, "till we get on the wool." "He worse than ebber now," cried the discontented African.
Nebber has been, and never shall be uner atween 'em." "I was not aware, Dido, that the Clawbonny slaves were so particular about their connections." "Won'erful particular, sah, and ebber hab been, and ebber will be. Don't t'ink, Masser Mile, I marry ole Cupid, myself, if anoder prop'r connection offer in 'e family; but I prefar him, to marry into any oder family hereabout."
And a vigorous arm pulled the lad abruptly through the opening. "Ef she sees yo', she can strike yo' dead, foh suah!" The crone could no longer distinguish Mauville her eyes were nearly sightless but she continued to look in the direction he had taken, sobbing as before: "Fo'ebber and ebber! Fo'ebber and ebber!"
"Right you are, sir," remarked the sailor. "P'r'aps it'll be as well for all of us to keep in the background." "Pooh!" ejaculated Ebony, turning up his nose a needless action, as it was well-turned up already "pooh! I not keep in de background! You're all wrong. W'en you knows nuffin, jest you wait till you knows suffin' ebber so little an' den go at 'im."
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