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Me free man, and true Barbadian born. Go along, you man-of-war man. "Man-of-war, buccra, Man-of-war, buccra. He de boy for me; Sodger, buccra, Sodger, buccra, Nebba, nebba do. Nebba, nebba do for me; Sodger give one shilling, Sailor give me two. "Massa, now suppose you give me only one pictareen now. You really handsome young gentleman."
I know it by their ways. Don't lose a stroke, Snowy. We may tire 'em out yet." "Nebba fear fo' me, Massa Brace!" replied the Coromantee. "A keep pullin' so long's de be a poun' o' trength in ma arms, or a bit o' breff in ma body. Nebba fear!" It might appear as though the crew of the Catamaran were now contending against fate, and without hope.
The first be called a prayer, the t'other be a thanksgivin'. Thear ain't much difference, as I could ever see; tho' I've heerd the ship's chaplain go through 'em both, ay, scores o' times; but the one as we want now be the thanksgivin'; an' I know little Will'm here can go through it like a breeze. Did you ever hear Will'm pray, Snowy?" "Nebba!
"Man-of-war, buccra, Man-of-war, buccra, He de boy for me; Sodger, buccra, Sodger, buccra, Nebba, nebba do, Nebba, nebba do for me; Sodger give me one shilling, Sailor give me two. Massa, now suppose you give me only one pictareen now. You really handsome young gentleman." "Now, just walk off," said Swinburne, lifting up a stick he found on the beach. "Eh! walk off.
"He no like us," he remarked to the whites. "He nebba be slave. Bom-bye you see him go dead." While Golah's mind appeared to be stunned almost to unconsciousness by the refusal of Fatima to obey his orders, his other two wives were moving about, as if engaged in some domestic duty.
"So much the better, nebba look after us, Massa Easy; I guess we have a fine cruise anyhow. Morrow we take large vessel make sail, take more, den we go to Toulon." "But I don't know my way to Toulon; I know it lies up this way, and that's all." "Dat enough, what you want more? Massa Easy, 'pose you not find fleet, fleet soon find you. By God, nobody nebba lost here.
"Nebba see de day Dat Rodney run away, Nebba see um night Dat Rodney cannot fight. "Massa, me free man, sar. Suppose you give me pictareen, drink massa health. "Nebba see de day, boy, Pompey lickum de Caesar. "And you nebba see de day dat de Grasshopper run on de Warrington." "Out of the way, you nigger!" cried one of the men who was rolling down a cask. "Eh! who you call nigger?
If that's his purpose," he continued, without waiting for a reply, "we shall have no peace so long as he remains alive. We must either kill him, or he will do as much for us." "Sahibs," observed the Hindoo, with a significant shake of the head, "we no able killee him; that elephan' he nebba die." "Oh, nonsense, Ossy!
"Say something! say what, Massa Brace?" "I mean a prayer." "Prayer! wha's dat?" "Surely, Snowy, you know what a prayer be?" "Nebba heerd ob de ting, nebba in all ma life!" "Well, it be to say somethin' to Him as keeps watch up aloft, either by way o' askin' for somethin' you want to get, or thankin' Him for what you ha' got arready.
One fellow danced round us, snapping his fingers, and singing songs without beginning or end. "Eh, massa, what you say now? Me no slave true Barbadian born, sir. Eh! "Nebba see de day Dat Rodney run away, Nebba see um night Dat Rodney cannot fight. Massa me free man, sar. Suppose you give me pictareen, drink massa health. "Nebba see de day, boy, Pompey lickum de Caesar.
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