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Updated: June 27, 2025
That is the question I want answered," continued the officer impatiently. "You can't do not'ing wid me, Massa Ossifer, and I must tooken my chance to go up in de boat. Better hab my froat cut 'n be chawed up by a big alligator. Was you ever bit by an alligator, Massa Ossifer?" "I never was." "I knows about dat, massa," added Quimp, as he bared his leg, and showed an ugly scar.
Nevertheless nurse put the words on the sheet of paper, and Pen proceeded to deliver herself quickly. "'I am paled down, and want change of air. My breaf is too quick. My legs is all tored with briers and things. I has got a prickly feeling in my froat, and I gets wet as water all over my hands and round my neck and my forehead. It's 'cos I'm weak, I 'spect."
Oh, my froat!" said Penelope again. Mr. Dale rose from his seat at last. "I never was so worried in my life," he said. "What is it, child? Out with it. What is wrong?" Penelope managed to raise eyes brimful of tears to his face.
"He's stabbed, Jimmy!" Samson Hat remarked, coming out of the kitchen; "see whar de dagger struck him right over de heart! Dat made him howl and fall dead. His froat was not cut dat sudden; it's gashed as if wid somethin' blunt." "Right you are, nigger! The throat-cuttin' was a make believe; the stab will tell the tale.
"If you knowed that your own little girl was suffering from bad froat and doubly-up tum-tum, and that sixpence would make her well quite, really, truly well wouldn't you give it to her?" said Penelope. "How can sixpence make you well? If you really have a sore throat and a pain we ought to send for the doctor." "Sixpence is much cheaper than the doctor," said Penelope. "Sixpence will do it."
I am much the most 'portant person in the house, and I's won my bet. I like betting. A penny from you all if you please." The girls were excited and amazed at Pen's news. "You are clever," said Briar. "How in the world did you get her to do it?" "Tum-tum and sore froat," said Penelope bluntly. "Oh! and vinegar and paling down."
'Sorry they don't trust 'em ter us drivers, I answers. 'Don't matter worth a cent, ee says. 'I've another w'y er openin' thet strong box. Put yer 'ands be'ind yer an' turn rahnd, ee says. I done it, an' ee trusses me up like a bloomin' chicken, an' sticks my own angkincher dahn me froat. With thet ee walks along ter the door and blows the bloomin' locks orf with 'is pistol. That did it.
"I asked Neddy Prichard to go down to the baker's and get it for you; but he wouldn't." "Then I say no more, except to hope you're better." "It's my froat," explained Bert, a sturdy, flaxen youngster of ten. "One more point I should like to raise while you are here. Have you noticed that garden chair in the porch?" "Yes, I have, and wondered why 'twas left there." "Wonder no more, Bert.
He said: "I fell back to de rear, by dat plantation where de cotton gin was burning, to see if I couldn't get a canteen of buttermilk to wash de dust outen my froat, when dat Dutch Noo Jersey gang come along, and de boss he said, 'nicker, you got back ahead fere you pelong, or I gick you in de pack mit a saber, aind't it, and when I get on my mule to come along he grab de boots and he say, 'nicker, dot boots is better for me, and when I was going to take dem away from him he stick me in de pants wid a saber.
"He say General Washington nebber had no children. And den man, man, when he insult me lak dat, I jump on him lak a wil' cat. We fought an' we fit. We fit an' we fought. I got him down an' bit one o' his years clean off smooth wid his head. In de las' clinch he git hol' er my lef year a'fo' I could shake him, he bit de top of hit off, sah. I got him by the froat an' choke hit outen his mouf.
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