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A pause, then Walter Hoxon pulled himself together and retorted: "Nappin'!" in scornful falsetto. "How could I get a shot, with ye a-trompin' up ez n'isy ez a herd o' cattle?" The reproach evidently struck home, for the elder said nothing. With the thoroughness characteristic of the habitual liar, Walter proceeded to add circumstance to his original statement.
But then what two folks ever did see each other? Why I never see Josiah, and Josiah never see me, not the real us. Well, it wuz a strange, strange seen that wuz spread out before us; the place looked more'n half asleep, and as if it had been nappin' for some time; the low odd lookin' houses looked too as if they wuz in a sort of a dream or stupor.
"'Deed, boss, you ain' gwine to have no cause to 'res' me, no cause whatsomever. You knows how 'tis, boss. Us coloured folks, we got a gif, jes' a natchel gif', foh nappin' an' sleepin'. Boss, dar ain' no nigger in dis town whut would have kep' wide awake wide all dat Monday night nor any yuther night." "Very well. Think now. Try to remember. Were you asleep at all before midnight?"
I doan reckon Matlock will ketch him nappin' Ken's eye tooths is cut but yuh nevah kin tell!" She sighed lugubriously and the girl's blood ran cold in her veins. "Thar's allus a chanct an' Ken is a heap keerless at times. I hope he gits him soon!" "But why?" said Grace unevenly, making a heroic struggle to retain the composure that was fast deserting her.
"Doubtless that's what it's for." "I think so, too. You don't hev to see them imps among the cottonwoods to know what they're up to. They hev dismounted on both wings, an' they're creepin' forward from the north an' from the south close to the banks o' the creek, hopin' to ketch us nappin'." The Little Giant was facing the south and suddenly his figure became taut.
I was glad Mrs. Woodburn wasn't there to hear. Jaggers had him out on the mat afore 'em all. Said he'd been caught nappin' by a boy with a face like a girl, too. Putnam 'orse and all. That got ole Chukkers' tail up. He made trouble in the weighin'-room. Said Albert had done him a dirty dish; but you can't go to the Stewards on that.
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