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"Oh, never you mind about the chicken thieves," grumbled Jack Ness. "Has somebody been stealing chickens again?" asked Dick, remembering that they had suffered several times from such depradations. "Yes, da has took two chickens las' Wednesday, foah on Saturday, an' two on Monday. Jack he laid fo' 'em wid a shotgun, but he didn't cotch nobody."
He gazed, in a supercilious fashion, at the two whites and the dog. "Wha' foah you fellows gwine come heh foah?" he demanded, in a rich, pleasant voice, but with an unwelcome scowl upon his face. "We just want a little breakfast," answered Watson. He was holding the boy's arm, and looked the picture of a blind mendicant. The darky gave them a scornful glance.
Drew was still half in the past. "What do I owe you more’n the thanks of a mighty tired man you’ve turned out brand new again?" He smiled and was suddenly all boy. "Foah bits, suh. An’ it was a pleasure to do fo’ a gentleman. It truly was. Come agin, suh—come, agin!" Drew went down the corridor, his spurs answering with a chiming ring each time his heels met planking.
"Why is it," she indignantly snorted to Mrs. Blount, on the occasion of one of that lady's garrulous visits, "that all wimmen, even r'ally good ones, have a kinda sneakin' likin' foah a rake? Thu worse thu mizzable he-critters be, thu moah yuh giggle at theah nastiness! It's a wondeh to me thet men eveh get married at all any moah.
If you try to get up this pistol may go off." "Has yo' been a-follerin' me?" "Never mind. We have found you and you are our prisoner," put in Shep. "Huh! Does yo' t'ink I'se afraid ob foah boys!" "Well, do you want to be shot?" asked Snap, holding the pistol on a level with the colored man's head. "Stop!" screamed the rascal. "Don't do dat! It might go off!" "Then you keep quiet."
Again Aleck had to be told the particulars and again he was tremendously interested. When the boys had finished he sat in silence for several minutes. "I've got it-jest de t'ing!" he cried suddenly. "Got what?" asked Tom. "De right idea, Massah Tom. Foah gen'men like yo' don't want to go to Africa widout a valet nohow. Let me be de workin' man fe de crowd.
Her mothah and mine used to go to school togethah heah in Lloydsboro Valley at the Girls' College, and they've written to each othah once a month for fifteen yeahs. Mrs. Ware is a widow now, and they have ha'd times, for they are poah, and she has foah children youngah than Joyce. But Joyce has had lots of things that neithah Eugenia nor I have had.
"I ain't gwine ter let no foah boys do me up!" cried the negro. "Let us gag him!" cried Whopper, and began to make a gag of a tree root. But then Jeff Thompson cooled down and said no more. The young hunters hardly knew what to do, and after a consultation it was decided to look for their own rowboat and then take a message to Ham Spink's crowd.
There's not a cloud anywhere!" Arethusa dismissed the idea with laughter. "Don't be such an old prophet of evil!" "Yes'sum, it are gwine to rain." Mandy left the table and went to the door, her hands full of bread dough, to peer out at the metallic looking sky, "and 'foah ve'y long, too. See thet theah?" She pointed to a low brownish grey line far down on the horizon. "Oh that!
Everything seemed as usual, and wonderfully calm compared with the tumult in our minds. The Hospital guards were pacing their beats lazily; those on the Stockade were drawling listlessly the first "call around" of the evening: "Post numbah foah! Half-past seven o'clock! and a-l-l's we-l-ll!"
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