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But not for long; he was soon back with four Indians, giving his orders lustily, and we stood and looked on while they skinned the trophies. "Perhaps they'll believe you now, Mas'r Harry," said Tom. "We'll take the skins up in triumph that we will! But who'd ever have thought of my coming out here to shoot adders a hundred foot long?" "Say five hundred, Tom," I said laughing.
Cato moves up and down, evidently feeling himself an important figure of the event, and admonishing his young "brudren," who are much inclined to mischief, not a few having perched on the pickets of the parsonage, to keep on their best behavior. Then he discourses with great volubility of his long acquaintance with Mas'r Tom and Miss Maria.
Mas'rs' hoss wants rubben down; see how he splashed hisself; and Jerry limps too; don't think Missis would be willin' to have us start dis yer way, no how. Lord bless you, Mas'r, we can ketch up, if we do stop. Lizy never was no great of a walker." Mrs. Shelby, who, greatly to her amusement, had overheard this conversation from the verandah, now resolved to do her part.
"It's the ghost's, mas'r!" says Gumbo, from behind; and Harry runs forward to the room, where, if you please, we will pause a little minute before we enter. The two gentlemen who were there, turned their heads away. The lost was found again. The dead was alive. The prodigal was on his brother's heart, his own full of love, gratitude, repentance. "Come away, James!
Upon examining our wallets we found that we each had a couple of candles left, but our provision was very low; and the question now arose as to the next proceeding. "Won't do to lie down and die, Mas'r Harry," said Tom. "I'm ever so much warmer now." "No, Tom," I said, "we'll fight to the last; but what are we to do?"
Andy looked rebuked, particularly by the hard word collusitate, which most of the youngerly members of the company seemed to consider as a settler in the case, while Sam proceeded. "Dat ar was conscience, Andy; when I thought of gwine arter Lizy, I railly spected Mas'r was sot dat way.
"Say, Mas'r Harry," said Tom after a long silence. "We are only wandering here and there without finding the passage to go out." "I have been thinking so too, Tom," I said, as a thought struck me. Then loudly "Look out, and see if you can make out anything when I fire: the flash may guide us."
It's a mighty thing, chil'en, you don'no nothing about it, it's wonderful." And the old creature sat down, with streaming tears, as wholly overcome, while the whole circle struck up "O Canaan, bright Canaan I'm bound for the land of Canaan." Mas'r George, by request, read the last chapters of Revelation, often interrupted by such exclamations as "The sakes now!" "Only hear that!"
"Don't see what Mas'r St. Clare wants of 'nother nigger!" said Dinah, surveying the new arrival with no friendly air. "Won't have her around under my feet, I know!" "Pah!" said Rosa and Jane, with supreme disgust; "let her keep out of our way! What in the world Mas'r wanted another of these low niggers for, I can't see!" "You go long!
"And be careful of yer speaking, Mas'r George. Young boys, when they comes to your age, is wilful, sometimes it is natur they should be. But real gentlemen, such as I hopes you'll be, never lets fall on words that isn't 'spectful to thar parents. Ye an't 'fended, Mas'r George?" "No, indeed, Uncle Tom; you always did give me good advice."
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