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Updated: May 16, 2025
Sometimes we tied ropes 'crost de bridge an' de paterollers'd hit it an' go in de creek. If we could git to de marster's house, we was all right. Marse Bob wouldn' let no pateroller come on his place. Marse Alf wouldn', neither. Dey said it was all right if we could git home widout bein' kotched, but we have to take dat chance. "At de Big House dey had spinnin' wheels an' a loom.
If you see her eyes lookin' an' lookin' at another man, you kin know what's to come." Pierre was white. "I've done with her. She kin never come to me fer bite or bed. Shoot her if you hev to, Pierre Landis, but when she's kotched at her mother's game, don't send her back to me. That's all I come to say." He turned with limber agility and went back to his horse.
I hung round fer a spell till the smith hed gone off an' I got into his place an' rid me of the handcuffs. 'Twas a job, but I wasn't kotched at it an' I made myself free." Followed the story of his wanderings and his hardships and his coming to Lone River and setting out his traps. "In them days there weren't no law ag'in' trappin' beaver.
Down cums de litening and fills de bottle full up, and Cap'n Franklin he dun cork him up mighty quick, and kotched de litening an' made de telegraf. But it was de Lord de Lord, not Cap'n Franklin dat did all dis." It was amusing to watch the varied expression of the negroes, as they listened to this description of the discovery of electricity, and the origin of the telegraph.
Mah hair stood up all right when dey kotched me," admitted Washington. "And didn't you feel a distinct electric shock all over your being?" "Just like as if you had run into an electric light pole?" interjected Hippy. "No, suh. Didn' feel no shock, 'cept when dat feller kicked me. Ah felt dat all right an' Ah feels it yit." "I reckon that will be about all.
"'And get kotched by the beaks vile doing so! rejoined Steel Spring, who appeared more anxious for flight than for blood.
Sometimes de men would steal off an' go ter other plantations, an' when kotched dey got a whuppin'. If de pataroller got em, dey sho' kotched it. Dey was whupped an' brung back. "De white folks had big dances in de Big House and de niggers played de fiddle. Dey was fine times. Dey had good things ter eat, an' I allus got some of whut was lef'. Christmas time de slaves had dances.
I's bin kotched by rubbers an' rescued by Gauchos, an' stole by Injins, an' I's runned away an' found myself here, an' dey's bin good to me here, but dey don't seem to want me much so I's kite free but I's awrful heaby!" "What's dat got to do wid it?" inquired the lover, tying a knot of perplexity on his eyebrows.
"Dey would track de runways wid dogs an' sometimes a white scal'wag or slacker wud be kotched dodgin' duty. I seed as many deserters as I see corn stalks ober in dat fiel'. Dey would hide out in day time an' steal at night. "No'm I didn' learn to read an' write but my folks teached me to be honest an' min' Old Miss an' Granny. Dey didn' want us to learn how to go to de free country.
The yell was uttered by Washington Washington. "Leggo me! Leggo! He kotched me! He kotched me! Wo o o o o ow!" The howls of the colored boy ended in a gurgle. "Shoot!" commanded Grace. "Shoot high! Empty your rifle!" Both girls let go a rattling fire with their rifles, and the howls and the shots brought the others of their party tumbling and shouting from their tents. "Down!
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