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He had no words wherewith to answer him, but he nodded an assent as he went on nervously tossing the acorns from one hand to another. There was a long silence, and when he looked up inquiringly, George had put his thin hands over his face to hide the tears that were slowly trickling down. "What's the mattah?" he asked anxiously. "Shall I call Mars' Nat?"
Then the place was in darkness, and the sound of footsteps in rapid flight could be heard outside the shed. The intruder, after wounding the young inventor, had made his escape. Miss Nestor Calls "What's de mattah? Shall I come in? Am anybody hurted?" yelled Eradicate Sampson as he pounded on the rear door of the aeroplane shed. "Let me in, Massa Tom!" "All right! Wait a minute!
From the third floor, where Dinah slept, the colored cook now called down: "Am anybody sick, Mrs. Bobbsey? What am de mattah down dere?" "It's a fire, Dinah !" answered her mistress. "Oh good land a'massy! Don't tell me dat!" she cried. "Sam! Sam! Wake up. De house is on fire an' you'se got t' sabe me!" "No, no, Dinah!" cried Mrs. Bobbsey, to calm the cook. "It isn't this house.
"Why, what can it be?" "De sandwiches is gone, dat's what's de mattah!" "The sandwiches, Dinah?" "Yes'm, de sandwiches what I done make fo' de excursnick!" "Oh, you mean for our picnic, Dinah?" "Yes'm, dat's it. Excursnick I calls it. But de sandwiches I done jest made am gone. I s'pects Massa Bert or his cousin done take 'em fo' fun." "Oh, no, Dinah. Bert nor Harry wouldn't do that.
His daughter dropped to her feet from his chair-arm. "Mah goodness! If nobody's in the wrong, ho' awe you evah going to get the mattah straight?" "Yes, you see," Fulkerson added, "nobody can give in." "Pardon me," said the colonel, "the case is one in which all can give in." "I don't know which 'll begin," said Fulkerson. The colonel rose. "Mr. Lindau must begin, sir. We must begin by seeing Mr.
Betty shrank away from him quickly, her tawny eyes giving out sparks of fury. "Is you Mistah Pa'khurst, you camel?" Perry made no answer. The crowd pressed up closer and stared at him. He stood frozen rigid with embarrassment, his cardboard face still hungry and sardonic as he regarded the ominous Jumbo. "Y'all bettah speak up!" said Jumbo slowly, "this yeah's a mighty serious mattah.
He'll make me stay home from Katie's pah'ty this aftahnoon and from the matinée to-morrow and there's nothing the mattah, only I'm cross and nervous, and the moah you bothah me the hah'dah it is to stop crying!" Then ashamed of her petulant outburst, she threw her arms around his neck, and sobbed on his shoulder.
If there's one thing I nevah could beah, it was for you to think I was a coward, and I can't have you thinking it now. It's a sawt of tryst I've kept all these yeahs, unconsciously, I suppose. Ever since I was a little thing, if I thought 'Bobby expects it of me, I'd do it, no mattah what it was, from jumping a fence to climbing on the chimney.
"Distance or closeness don't make no mattah of diffunce to de colonel when he's got a bite, sah! I'm sorry, but I can't let yo' go any closer, an' I'se got to go an' land de fish.
At that moment there sounded a violent pounding on the exterior of the projectile, and the voice of the colored man could be heard calling: "Am anything de mattah? Andy Sudds an' I is out heah, an' we heard suffin goin' on in dere. Am anybody hurted?"
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