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"Well, you must be most starved, ain't you?" "I reck'n I could eat a hoss. I think I could. How long you ben on de islan'?" "Since the night I got killed." "No! W'y, what has you lived on? But you got a gun. Oh, yes, you got a gun. Dat's good. Now you kill sumfn en I'll make up de fire."
There's something uncanny about it." "An' yet it's a pretty little islan', too," said Tom Ross, thoughtfully, "an' mighty glad we wuz to see it yes'day, when we wuz druv before that howlin' an' roarin' storm, with but one chance in a hundred uv livin'." "That's so," said Henry. "We owe the island a debt of gratitude if others don't.
"Well, Paul," he said, "I've seen 'em off, an' a-tween you and me, I'd rather be right here on this here haunted islan', a-hobnobbin' with Injun ghosts an' havin' a good, comfortable, easy time, than be dodgin' braves, an' feelin' every minute to see ef my scalp is on out thar among the Injun villages." "You don't think they'll be taken?" asked Paul, in some alarm.
The frozen surface of the lake threw back the light in myriads of golden sheaves, and every tree, down to the last twig, gleamed in a silvery polished sheath. "It 'pears to me," said Shif'less Sol lazily, "that we ain't on an islan' no longer. The Superior Powers hev built a drawbridge, on which anything can pass." "That's so," said Paul. "The ice must be thick enough now to bear a war party."
They weren't taken along in carriages-and-four, either; they were mostly dragged along by the scruff of the neck. Billy Malkeela, the South Sea diver, summed up the Japanese question "Seems to me dis Islan' soon b'long Japanee altogedder. Now no more rickatta. All money go Japan!" An English new-chum made his appearance there lately a most undefeated sportsman.
You will trespass here if you are determined. But I warn you that if you bring those dogs ashore you will be prosecuted." "I'm a-goin' to search this islan'," growled Sheriff Larkin, uglily. "You may. You have no warrant to do so, but you may. But you must not bring ashore those dogs. And," added the professor, turning and bowing with old-fashioned courtesy to Mrs.
And we had him up to the sick-room, and had a high talk; and Tom give Jim forty dollars for being prisoner for us so patient, and doing it up so good, and Jim was pleased most to death, and busted out, and says: "DAH, now, Huck, what I tell you? what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan'? I TOLE you I got a hairy breas', en what's de sign un it; en I TOLE you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich AGIN; en it's come true; en heah she is!
One song which they afterwards remembered was: "Oh, dey put John on de islan' When de Bridegroom come; Yes, dey put John on de islan' When de Bridegroom come; An' de rabens come an' fed him When de Bridegroom come; Yes, de rabens come an' fed him When de Bridegroom come.
Besides this cordage, there is another sort of rope made at the Islan de Negros, from a dark-coloured plant, a description of rush, which is found growing there in abundance; and as it is not damaged by exposure to the influence of water, it is very extensively used by the native coasting-vessels of small size for cables, for which it is found to answer very well.
Done you know dem policers are sneakin' aroun' ebberywhere, up de stairways as well as ebberywhere else? An if one of dem happened to hear you speak such words, dis ole woman take a ride up to de Islan' in de Black Maria, and you go to de debbil, sure! Know all about 'em, honey been dare afore!" "Humph!" said the lawyer, nevertheless using lower voice even for the disclaimer.
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