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He was a worker in the garden. "Den I hope we's all willin' to gib de Lord t'anks for his goodness. Dere aint a night in de year when it's so proper to gib de Lord t'anks, as it be dis precious night." "It's to-morrow night, aunt Maria," said Pete. "To-morrow's Christmas night." "I don't care! One night's jus' as good as another, you Pete.
I fired, and without a struggle the creature turned on one side, and lay perfectly still. Timbo was instantly up with me. "Me kill him well, Massa Andrew!" he exclaimed. "You no do dat, him gib ugly bite." "There they come! there they come!" we heard Leo and Natty shouting out; and they brought torches down the hill to give us welcome.
"Course I knows what it am," answered Eradicate, with dignity. "Dat noise am my mule Boomerang, kickin' in his stable, on account oh me not feedin' him yet. Dat's what it am. I'se gwine right now t' gib him his oats, and den yo' see dat de noise stop. Boomerang allers kick dat way when he's hungry. I show yo'!"
When he got de banjo 'bout paid foh, dat time he took a whole nes'ful to onc't an' de birds what it b'longed to saw what he war a-doin' an' gib him a piece o' dere mind, an' folled him 'round all day an' sat on de roof ob his quarters an' talked all night, 'an tole him to bring back dem Mockers or dey'd tell; an' Sambo war skeered an' wanted to put de birds back an' den he didn't like to.
I smiled and was hesitating whether to sling it round my neck or to give it back when Cludde asked me what was the meaning of this strange talk. As I did not answer at once, Uncle Moses broke in. "Massa gib dat silver so dat you not be burned, sah. Noah will hab eber so much more bimeby, 'nuff to buy him free, sah." Cludde looked at me inquiringly. "'Tis true, Cludde," I said.
The child stirred in Tom's arms and uttered its first sharp little cry, and as if in answer to the summons, Aunt Mornin opened the door. "It's all done," she said. "Gib me de chile, Mars De Willerby, and go in an' look at her." When he entered the little square living room, Tom paused at the foot of the bed. All was straight and neat and cold.
By the time we've taken on coal an' water an' what-all, it'll be eight or nine o'clock, with me an' McGuffey entitled to mebbe three dollars overtime an' havin' to argue an' scrap with you to git it not to speak o' havin' to put to sea the same night so's to be back in Halfmoon Bay to load bright an' early next mornin'. Scraggsy, I ain't no night bird on this run." "Do you mean to defy me, Gib?"
"Him de syfe and de spade what Massa Will sis pon my buying for him in de town, and de debbil's own lot of money I had to gib for em." "But what, in the name of all that is mysterious, is your 'Massa Will' going to do with scythes and spades?" "Dat's more dan I know, and debbil take me if I don't believe 'tis more dan he know, too. But it's all cum ob de bug."
Dat ar young miss done bring dat cat home ter hab in her room fo' a pet. How happen her to gib it up ter Judy?" "Nonsense, Judy. She knows, as all the pupils know, that it is a fixed rule at Glenmore, that no pupil can have a pet in her room." "All de same, Miss Patrichy meant dat cat ter be up in her room, long o' dat ar Carbale gal." Judy never could get Arabella's name correctly.
Now, I don't see no use in dis h'yer notion, not a bit. Ef de white folks hez made up der minds an' hit seems ter me dey hez dat cullu'd folks shan't vote 'less dey votes wid dem, we mout jest ez well gib up fust as las'!" "Nebber! nebber, by God!" cried Nimbus, striding across the platform, his hands clenched and the veins showing full and round on neck and brow.
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