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Updated: June 21, 2025
"How far is it to the road?" he asked. "Jest a spell arter ye rise the hill, ef ye keep 'longside the woods. But it's a right smart chance beyond, ef ye go through it." This was quite plain to him. In the local dialect a "spell" was under a mile; "a right smart chance" might be three or four miles farther.
"Bery good, massa," said Quashy, at last giving in, "if you will walk 'longside ob a nigger, 's'not my fault. Don't blame me." With this protest, solemnly uttered, the faithful negro accompanied our hero in his inspection of the town.
She's made me show up like a bad old copper penny 'longside of her. A year ago I could have taken this old Award without a flicker of my littlest eyelash, but just knowing her makes it impossible! Now what shall we do?" Jerry's remonstrance a little quivery, because she was deeply moved by Ginny's unexpected tribute was drowned out in a general assent and a clamorous approval of Ginny's words.
"Dar," he said, waving his hand toward the slope; "dar is whar I wants my house, right 'longside ob dat ar spring, wid a good terbacker barn up on de hill dar." "Why, what do yer want ter lib dar fer?" asked the other in surprise, as he peered over the side of the wagon, in which he sat upon a thick bed of fodder which Nimbus had spread over the bottom for his comfort.
"I'd like to be 'longside o' some one I know out by 'Ampstead 'Eath," rejoined the other. "I got a girl in Camden Town," said the First victoriously. "I got kids somewheres, I expect," rejoined the Second with a flourish of pride and self-assertion. "Oh, a donah's enough for me!" returned the First.
W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles. I just done gone miss' a spam whale, and I was kiender mad, muss ha' bin. Wall, I let him hab it blam 'tween de ribs. If I lib ten tousan year, ain't gwine ter fergit dat ar. Wa'nt no time ter spit, tell ye; eberybody hang ober de side ob de boat. Wiz poof! de line all gone. Clar to glory, I neber see it go.
Before the cloud was gone so much as ten yards on the wind, the gentleman on the cue-bald horse shuts up his face like a pair of nut-cracks, as wide as it was long before, and out he pulls two girt pistols longside of zaddle, and clap'th one to Squire Maunder's head, and tother to Sir Richard Blewitt's.
"Me no shabbee Pilat INSIDE housee; me shabbee Pilat OUTSIDE housee. S'pose you lun away longside Chinee boy Chinee boy make you Pilat." Hickory softly scratched his leg; while a broad, bashful smile almost closed his small eyes. "Wot?" he asked. "Mebbe you too flightened to lun away. Melican boy's papa heap lickee." This last infamous suggestion fired the corsair's blood.
"Next time it may be in th’ head, not ’longside it, that he gits his lead. See you got back in one piece, you two fightin’ wildcats," Nye said, grinning at Drew and Anse. "Nothin’ like tryin’ to take on th’ army—two to one—with th’ army havin’ th’ advantage. That eye’s fadin’ good, Drew, only two colors now, ain’t it?" Drew grunted and Nye laughed.
I dunno what it is," he said, "makes me 'anker so after the road. I was always like it from a boy. Couldn't get me to school, so they couldn't allus after birds' nests or rabbits or the like. Not but what I liked it well enough where I was bred. I didn't tell you, did I, we passed close longside our old 'ome that time we slep' among the furze bushes? I don't s'pose my father's alive now.
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