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Then he kicked off his web-feet, turned back a few paces uphill, and sat down on a spruce stump, folded his arms, and waited. Was it the knapsack on his back that bowed him so? "Hello, Kentucky!" But the Colonel didn't look up till the Boy got quite near, chanting in his tuneless voice: "'Grasshoppah sett'n on a swee' p'tater vine, Swee' p'tater vine, swee' p'tater vine "
If you cry, Kaviak, I'll have to sing. Hmt, hmt! don't you do it." And as Kaviak, in spite of instructions, began to bawl, the Boy began to do a plantation jig, crooning monotonously: "'Grashoppah sett'n on de swee' p'tater vine, Swee' p'tater vine, swee' p'tater vine; Grasshoppah " He stopped as suddenly as he'd begun. "Now, will you be good?"
"Grasshoppah sett'n on a swee' p'tater vine," The Boy droned sleepily as he untied the leathern thongs that kept up his muckluck legs "Swee' p'tater vine, swee' p'ta " "All those othahs" the Colonel waved a hand in the direction of Pymeut "I think we dreamed 'em, Boy. You and me playing the Big Game with Fohtune. Foolishness! Klondyke? Yoh crazy.
They were George's greatest treasures, and she allowed no one to touch them, not even John Jay, to whom they had been left. "What does a little niggah like him want of schoolin'," she had once said to Uncle Billy, when he had proposed sending the boy to school to keep him out of mischief. "Why, that John Jay he hasn't got any mo' mind than a grasshoppah.
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