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"Well, what is it? Why are you in such haste to get away?" "Um! Ah! Well, I don't laiks fo' t' tell yo' Colonel!" and Shag seemed uneasy. "You don't like to tell me? Look here, you black rascal! don't try to hide anything from me, do you hear? You know me, and " "Oh, indeedy I does know yo', Colonel! Dat's jest why I don't wan t' tell yo'! It it's 'bout one ob dem t'ings!" "What things?
"But I didn't hab no weapon, Mistah Swift, no indeedy, none at all, not even mah razor," repeated Eradicate. "Only de pail ob whitewash. That is, lessen yo' calls mah bresh a weapon." "Well, it's a sort of one," admitted Tom, with a laugh as he started his machine. "Come around next week, Rad. We have some dirt eradicating for you to attend to." "Deed an' I will, Mistah Swift.
"Anything else, Colonel?" asked Shag, when he had laid out his master's clothes, and was preparing to go to his own apartment in an annex to the hotel. "No, I guess that's all, Shag. But what's your hurry? You aren't usually in such haste to leave me, even if you have laid out all my duds. What's the matter? Got some friends in town?" "Oh, no, sah, Colonel! No, indeedy! 'tain't dat at all!"
"Mebbe, Massa Jack, mebbe!" agreed Washington, briskly. "But de copy book say dat it is better to have tried an' failed dan nebber to have tried at all." "And did you ever try calling the rooster back, when he starts to play truant, with all that mouthful of words?" queried the amused Mark. "Yes, indeedy," said Washington, seriously. "Don't he mind, then?"
"Yes, indeedy; and, oh, bress de Lord, Massa Vint knows her, and is talkin' like a sweet dove!" It was true. Miss "Limpy," blushing very red, was surprised by Rosa in a very motherly attitude by the patient's cot.
He's that good to his old mother, back in the East, I tell my own son John, he ought to profit by such an example. I should hate to have anything happen to him. Yes, indeedy, I should hate to have a single bad thing happen to poor George Cromarty." A little nervous shiver ran through Mrs.
Don't catch me bein' lonesome while there's folks around I care about. I was lonesome enough when I first came to the Home and the kids used to make fun of me. But I ain't lonesome now, with you so kind and nice. No indeedy! I ain't lonesome and I ain't goin' to be. You watch!" Captain Obed heartily approved of Imogene. Of Kenelm Parker as man-of-all-work his approval was much less enthusiastic.
I'm so stiff an' I'm so nearly broke t' pieces, dat if I turn mah head around it suah will twist offen mah body. No, sah! No, indeedy, sah, I ain't gwine t' turn 'round. But am yo' suah dat mah mule Boomerang ain't hurted?" "No, he's not hurt a bit, and I'm sure you are not. I didn't strike you hard, for I had almost stopped my machine. Try to get up. I'm positive you'll find yourself all right.
Carter. "Wot! me?" exclaimed the porter. "No, sah! Ah ain't nottin' like dat no, sah! Ah reckon Ah done save dat little man's life. Yo' know, dat little drummer wot's trabelin' wid de big man. Dey was castin' lots t' see which one should be kilt fo' to be et by de odder " "Oh, mercy!" screamed Bess, and stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth. "Ya-as, indeedy, Miss! Dey was gettin' mighty desprit.
I admired Jupiter's taste, not failing either to marvel at the wonderful power which only once before, as far as I knew, he had exerted to give to a bit of sculpture all the flush and glory of life, as in the case set forth in the pathetic tale of Pygmalion and Galatea. "And does he do this sort of thing often?" I inquired. "Yass indeedy," said Sambo. "He's doin' it all de time.
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