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These yere hundred an' fifty dollars will keep us movin' till we kin find them eighty thousand." "Be you goin' to look fur them agin, pap?" "No, I hain't, but you be." "Not much, I ain't," replied Dan, emphatically. "Who's to do it, then?" demanded his father. "I can't, kase I'm afeared to go into the settlement even at night. You hain't goin' to give up the money, be you?
Den he called fer de key ob de 'backer-barn, an' I tole him 'twan't nowheres 'bout de house good reason too, kase Nimbus allus do carry dat key in his breeches pocket, 'long wid his money an' terbacker. So he takes de axe an' goes up ter de barn, an' I goes 'long wid him ter see what he's gwine ter du.
His tone was so natural, his manner so unsuspecting, that a new doubt began to stir in Luke Todd's mind. "What ails ye ter keep the mare down hyar, Tobe?" he asked, suddenly. "Tears like ter me ez that be powerful comical." "Kase," said Tobe, reasonably, "some durned horse-thieves kem arter her one night. I fired at t'em. I hain't hearn on 'em sence. An' so I jes hid the mare." Todd was puzzled.
The old negress shivered, peered about her into the dark corners of the kitchen, and crooned to herself, a wild, monotonous air, set to words which came to her lips for the occasion: "Oh, Hagar, don't ye know De Lord's on de sea? He rides on de waves, And de wind is in his hand, De Lord keeps dem all! What ye feared of, Hagar? Kase, don't ye know de Lord's in it?
"All that takes a power o' knowledge readin' an' writin' an' cipher-in' an' sech. How air ye expectin' to hold out, 'kase I know ye never hed no mo' larnin' than me, an' I war acquainted with ye till ye war thirty years old an' better?" The tenor of this discourse did not comport with his customary suavity and tactful courtesy toward a guest, but he was much harassed and had lost his balance.
"He say Marse Jack gone on a rebel boat, an' I know in reason dat ain't so." "You won't get nuffin mo' outen Julius if you whop him till he plum dead," shouted the black boy, who had taken refuge behind Marcy and was holding fast to him with both hands. "I reckon I know whar Marse Jack gone, kase I was dar." "Go into the house, Julius.
I knowed he didn't mean a word he said then, but war jes' slickin' over the things he hed said on Quigley's account, kase the crowd seemed ter favor me. I say, comic! Let Rolf Quigley take the comic fur a sign." It is easy to pluck up fears that have no root. "Oh, I be goin' ter 'lectioneer all the same ez ever. Whar 's the nex' place we air bound fur?"
He was a little afraid that Maroney might begin to notice him and found it necessary to use the utmost caution. Before embarking on the Walsh he laid in a stock of "bolognas," a few pounds of the rankest "Sweitzer kase" and an abundance of "pretzels." Coming down to the boat some time before Maroney, he filled his pipe and took a seat where he could watch all that went on.
He appealed to the presiding justice, holding up his right arm as tremulous as old Quimbey's own. "I want the law! I ain't a-goin' ter tech a old man like him, an' my wife's father, so I ax in the name o' peace fur the law. Don't deny it" with a warning glance "'kase I ain't school-larned, an' dunno how ter get it. Don't ye deny me the law!
"Ter-morrer night ride him up ter my house on the mounting. Ye hev hearn tell o' me, hain't ye, Jedge? My name's Grig Beemy. Don't kem till night, 'kase I won't be thar till then. I hev got ter stop yander yander" he looked about uncertainly, "yander ter the sawmill till then, 'kase I promised ter holp work thar some. I'll gin ye the dollar now," he added liberally, as an extra inducement.
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