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Updated: June 27, 2025
"We lef' Miss Betty's befo' breakfas'," said Uncle Billy sadly, but a glance from his mistress made him add, "but we ain't hongry, case we done et our fill at a hotel back yonder." "I deemed it wise to travel before the heat of the day," said Miss Ann with an added dignity. "Take my luggage to my room, Billy."
"Can't they wait until the end of the week?" Emerson inquired. "No! They got no money they got no grub. They say little baby is hongry, and they like money now. So soon they buy grub, they work some more." "Very well. Here's an order on the book-keeper." Boyd tore a leaf from his note-book and wrote a few words on it, telling the men to present it at the office.
Even black Frank had got over his terror of having natives come up without warning and feel of his arm or his woolly head, though he muttered doubtfully, "Ah ain't sayin' as Ah likes it. Dah's su'thin' so kind of hongry de way dey comes munchin' an' proddin' round dis yeh ol' niggeh."
It took many minutes. The curl must be adjusted, the full skirts pulled out or shaken loose, the rare jewels arranged before she was dismissed with "Dah, honey chile, now go-long. Ain't nary one on 'em ain't pizen hongry for ye any mos' on 'em 'll drown derselves 'fo' mawnin' becos dey can't git ye."
He pulled off the string, and poured into his wife's lap the heap of glittering coin gold and silver more than their eyes had ever seen before. "Hit's all dyah," said the old man, confidentially, as if he were rendering an account. "I been savin' it ever sence dee took me 'way. I so busy savin' it I ain' had time to eat, but I ain' hongry now; have plenty when I git home." He sank back exhausted.
Through the barnyard smells began to drift...the greasiness of food cooking in the field kitchen. "Ah hope they give us somethin' good to eat," said Chrisfield. "Ah'm hongry as a thrasher." "So am I," said Andrews. "Say, Andy, you kin talk their language a li'l', can't ye?" Andrews nodded his head vaguely. "Well, maybe we kin git some aigs or somethin' out of the lady down there.
The ferret appeared, or, rather, a big grey rabbit ... squealing with terror ... coming up backward ... the ferret clinging angrily to his nose ... and tugging like a playing pup. Paul took Jim off and put him back in his pocket ... he had to smack him smartly to make him let go "hongry little devil!" he remarked fondly.
She read it twice and placed the note in her bosom next the knife and looked at Luis, the glitter gone from her eyes. She smiled a little. "I awful hongry," she said in her soft voice, and it was the second sentence she had spoken since they left the rock where she had waited. Luis smiled back, relief showing in the uplift of his lips and the lightening of his eyes.
He checked them off on the tines of his fork, occasionally pausing to take a bite from the meat held in his other hand. "Der vos five kilt, Captain; dot vos it. I vos hit mit der ear off, und vos hongry as never vos; Sands is goin' to die, und maybe Elliott vill not get some better; some odders vos hurted, und der guide vos took brisoner." "Taken prisoner?"
When we are off during the day we always leave Jess and Jim to guard the camp. Jess is a Scotch collie and Jim is a blood-hound. He's there in the kennel. Neither man nor varmint would have any chance with them." "I been use' to live alone when my husban' is away, M'sieu' Brownee. I not 'fraid like you t'ink. But if Gougou be cold and hongry."
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