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The Doctor nervously rubbed his glasses and looked again, at a loss to determine why the bird did not fall. When the boat dropped alongside, Paul explained to the astonished Doctor that a shotgun only carried a short distance and he could not expect to hit anything so far away. As the sun was sinking that evening, Boyton heard the negro yelling: "Great Lawd, come hyah Cap'en!
Oh, my soul, come quick! quick! Dis hyah Dutchman gwine t' kill me suah!" Wheeling around, Paul witnessed the most ludicrous spectacle.
"Ise not sayin' nun' Cap'en" he remarked to Paul, "but that man aint been rised aroun' whar da do much shootin', suah's yo' libe. Dar aint no tellin' whar he gwine fur to pint that weepin' an Ise running chances in hyah wid him. Dat's right, Cap'en." He was assured that there would be no danger; but he was far from being satisfied and kept an anxious eye on the Doctor's movements.
I nevah furgit de day dat my ol' Mas' Jack put me on 'June Boy, his black geldin', an' say to me, 'Si, says he, 'if you don' ride de tail offen Cunnel Scott's mare, "No Quit," I's gwine to larrup you twell you cain't set in de saddle no mo'. Hyah, hyah. My ol' Mas' was a mighty han' fu' a joke. I knowed he wan't gwine to do nuffin' to me. "Did I win?
They would run close to the water's edge and yell at Read, who was pulling leisurely behind in a row boat. "Hyah, man. Doan yo' see dat ar man drownen? G'on an pick him up." "Not much, I wont pick him up." Opie shouted, "I'm going to let him drown." "Hi, Eph; git yo' boat. Drownen man in de ribber.
"Who yo' mean mah master?" he replied in surly tone. "I wish to see Mr. Haredale or Captain Danby." "No sich names hyah!" "Well then, I want Mr. Trenchard." "Who's yo' se'f to see Mas'r Trenchard?" "I am an acquaintance of his." "Well, ah don' know yo' face, so ah guess dey's bof' out fo' you an' so's yo'se'f an' can stay out, fo' shure."
Now, you needn't hurry, Ed, about gettin' around hyah next season, suh, because, sho's yo' bawn, upon the wo'd of a Southern gentleman, suh, yo' shall have my business." "You sold him next time?" asked one of the boys. "You bet your life I did," said Ed. "That man's word was good." "He was a splendid old gentleman," spoke up another one of the boys.
However, I recall that only yesterday the Captain, in private, denounced the citizens of Lattimore as beneath the contempt of gentlemen of breadth of view. 'I shall dispose of my holdin's hyah, said he, with a stately sweep indicative of their extent, 'at any sacrifice, and depaht, cuhsin' the day I devoted myself to the redemption of such cattle.
She dwelt ever so lightly upon the verb, and Uncle Jake caught it. "No, Miss Sally," he explained, "dat ain' 'zackly what I mean. Hit's like dis I just am boun' foh to hyah all de folks shout glory when ma Honey-bird comes home!" "What if she ain't in front, Uncle Jake?" said Blister, helping the old man into the motor. "Don't you trifle with me, boy!" replied Uncle Jake severely.
But the sheriff was not so easily deceived. "What's this yer grippin' in yer hand, Jeff? A rock big enough to knock a man silly. Thought tuh drap in down on the head o' this hyah youngster, didn't yuh? Easy way tuh git the upper hand o' him, yuh spected. Shucks! Don't yuh open that mouth o' yourn tuh say another word.
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