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"Ob course he will," said the old woman, "he neber see any body want but he get him plenty and take care ob him." "What kind a chile is de one you had at your cabin?" asked Elsy. "Jes de lubliest baby you eber seed in your life," answered the old negro. "He is one ob de best children I eber had taking care ob." "Don't he cry none for his mudder," enquired Elsy.
"Well, now, I don't belieb you're 'fraid, not de way I yeard you talkin' to de oberseer wen he war threatnin' to hit your mudder. He saw you meant business, an' he let her alone. But, what's to hinder you from gwine wid us?" "My mother," he replied, in a low, firm voice. "That is the only thing that keeps me from going. If it had not been for her, I would have gone long ago.
"I talk berry often to Mammy, and not 'spect anyting, but dis berry morning I'se tell her dat, when I was one piccaninny, I'se carried away from Africa wid my mudder; when I'se come to Jamaica, one massa buy her and anoder buy me, and from dat day I neber set eyes on her. We talkee for some time, and den she cry out, `You Pompey, my son, and she trew her arms round my neck and burst into tears.
Der liddle brudders an' sisters go to school, vear good clothes, haf better pread an' meat; der mudder lif fat, dere iss joy in der eye, an' she iss proud of her good boy Joe. "But he haf der beautiful body ach, Gott, der beautiful body! stronger as der ox, k-vicker as der tiger-cat, der head cooler as der ice-box, der eyes vat see eferytings, k-vick, just like dat.
Low German is curiously like English at times. The sentence, "the water is deep," is identical in both tongues. "Mudder," "brudder," and "sister" have all a familiar ring about them, too. The word "watershed," as applied to the ridge separating two river systems, had always puzzled me.
Ruthven 'bout dis. She will want to heah de partic'lars wery much, sah." "Yes, I will visit the Ruthven home," replied the doctor. "Yo' know de way, sah?" "I believe I do." "I can show yo' de way, an' will do it willingly. So you knew Jack's fadder an' mudder! Golly, but aint dat strange after all dese yeahs, too! Jack will want to see yo', ob course."
"Ay tank ets a good deal money, by sure," she said to herself; "but das leedle children mus' have new fadder to mak mind un tak care dere mudder like, by yimminy! An' Ay tank no man look may way in das ole dress I been wearing."
She seemed not to hear the eloquent discussion inside. "What's going on?" asked Claude. "Dey tink I am in house." "How's that?" "My mudder she lock me up." Claude stared. "Locked you up? What for?" "She tondt like it dot I come out to see you." "Oh, she don't?" said Claude. "What's the matter o' me? I ain't a dangerous chap. I ain't eatin' up little. girls." Nina went on placidly.
Then, side by side, he examined them; color, cutting, diameter, depth, all seemed to be the same. "Dwins, I dell you," repeated Mr. Schultze stolidly. "Dweedledum und Dweedledee, born of der same mudder und fadder. Laadham, id iss der miracle! Dey are der most beaudiful der world in yust der pair of dem." "Have you made," Mr.
He buy der pread an' der meat, an' pay der rent. On Saturday night he bring home ten dollar. Den Hansen gif him twelve dollar vat he do? He iss der liddle fader, he bring it home to der mudder. He vork all der time, he get twenty dollar vat he do? He bring it home.
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