Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
Den a boy was put up, and den two more women, and ebery time just de same ting was done. Den de man call out, and de captain push his way through the crowd wid me, and tell me to climb up on platform. I get up and look round quite surprised. Eberybody laugh. Den de man began to holloa again. Den seberal men come up and feel my arms and my legs.
We were all eagerly discussing the matter, some of the men agreeing with me that the sounds were human, while others stoutly maintained that they were supernatural, and boded some terrible disaster to the boats, when our discussion was abruptly broken in upon by the sound of rippling water near at hand, as though a craft of some kind were bearing down upon us at a speed sufficient to raise a brisk surge under her bows, and the next instant the voice of San Domingo pealed out in piercing tones, eloquent of the direst terror: "Oh, look dere eberybody!
Roderick laughed good-naturedly, as he followed her into the house, but Mammy Viney tossed her head. "Eberybody say dat it pretty mean o' you, anyhow," she said with the air of one who could tell a great deal if she wished. "'Deed dey's sayin' dat you no business make Lawya Ed stay home!" Roderick did not wait to hear any more of what Algonquin was saying about him.
Dey was brave, dey was stubborn as mules, but back dey had to come. De head Linkum ossifer was leadin' all de time. I neber seed such a man, eberyting an' eberybody guv way afo' him. De oder Linkum sogers dat I thought was whipped wasn't whipped at all, fer dey come crowdin' aroun' arter de head ossifer, jes' as peart as eber.
W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles. I just done gone miss' a spam whale, and I was kiender mad, muss ha' bin. Wall, I let him hab it blam 'tween de ribs. If I lib ten tousan year, ain't gwine ter fergit dat ar. Wa'nt no time ter spit, tell ye; eberybody hang ober de side ob de boat. Wiz poof! de line all gone. Clar to glory, I neber see it go.
"It is, I suspect, a large shell-fish; a mollusc, learned people call it; and if so, the creature will afford all hands an ample meal," observed the mate. Walter and Alice ran down to meet Nub. "Yes, Missie Alice, bery good fish inside here," he answered. "Nuf for good supper for eberybody; only we cook it first."
Why do they do that?" "Dun know, massa " "Please don't call me massa any more, Peter, for I'm not massa in any sense being only your friend and fellow-slave." "Well, I won't, Geo'ge. I's a-goin' to say I s'pose dey plunder de Jews 'cause dey's got lots o' money an' got no friends. Eberybody rob de Jews w'en dere's a big rumpus. But I don't t'ink dere's a row jus' now only a scare."
"Massa Easy, you get eberybody out of scrape; you get me out of scrape." "I do not recollect how, Mesty." "You get me out from boil kettle for young gentlemen dat devil of scrape." "And I'm sure I've got you out of a scrape, Mr Oxbelly." "How so, Mr Easy?" "How so! have I not prevented your quarrelling with your wife every night?" "Certainly, sir, you have been the means.
"That's cheerful information," said Tom. "And why didn't they slay the poisoner?" "Eberybody 'fraid to touch him 'fraid he be poisoned." "I'd run my chances providing I had a knife or a club," muttered Tom. "Or a pistol," finished Sam. "Such rascals are not fit to live."
"So help me Gad, nobody on board but Pompey and dat me." "Good ship-keepers, at all events," said Jack. "A ship in the outer roads with only a black fellow on board! I say, Pompey, do they always leave you in charge of the vessel?" "No, sar; but to-night great pleasure on shore. Eberybody dance and sing, get drunk, kick up bobbery, and all dat." "What, is it a festival?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking