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The latter was sitting in a chair at a desk, and when Harlan entered Haydon got up and grinned at him, shallowly, without mirth. "So you got here," he said; "I've been expecting you." "I've been notin' that. That guy you left at the edge of the level to keep an eye on the Rancho Seco didn't cover his tracks. I run onto them an' I saw him hittin' the breeze comin' here.
"You seem to think that I want to make you do more than your share." "No, sar! I's tink you do more'n your share, Dan. Cyd ain't notin but a nigger, and you's almos' a gen'leman." "Come, come, Cyd. I shall be angry if you talk in that way. I am just the same as the rest of you." "Hossifus! Wha wha wha " "That'll do, Cyd." "You's got all de brains, and knows jes what to do and where to go.
There is only Pepper left now." "Only Pepper!" exclaimed that individual indignantly. "What is the matter with me?" "Notin' at ail, me darlint," broke in Gerald; "shure, your the biggest banana in the bunch, av people only knew it." "Well, Pepper?" said Rand. "Heads." "Head it is," announced Rand. "You're it, Pepper." "Begorrah, 'tis a long tail that has no head," commented Gerald.
Some seemed ill, or wounded, or asleep, others were chattering eagerly among themselves, singing, praying, or soliloquizing on joys to come. "Bress de Lord," I heard one woman say, "I spec' I got salt victual now, notin' but fresh victual dese six months, but Ise get salt victual now," thus reversing, under pressure of the salt-embargo, the usual anticipations of voyagers.
Why, that's nothing!" "Goramighty, Massa Boltrope, you no swim ten day widout habin' notin' to eat, nor no water, hey?" said Snowball in astonishment. "No, you blessed donkey, I didn't say that," replied the worthy Jack tar. "I said as how I had gone without grub or water for ten days after swimming for more than twelve hours."
"Eet ees notin," said he, in a tremulous voice. "Eet ees all ovair. Eet ees only a false alarm." Mrs. Willoughby retreated to her room, and Minnie said nothing. As for Ethel, the suspense with her had passed away as the report of the pistol came to her ears.
"Don't tell me your wicked stories, sir. Tell me this moment, or master shall know, and you shall be flogged. You have stolen them away." "No, no, missie, Pompey nebber 'teal, no, nebber; wouldn't 'teal notin'." Where are they, sir?" "Oh, don't whip lil nigger, missie.
"This isn't a trail a man can hurry on onless he spends a good deal of his time on it, or is careless about notin' the signs, fur the words be weighty, and a man must stop at each word, and look around awhile, in order to git all the meanin' out of 'em yis, a man orter travel this trail a leetle slow, ef he wants to see all there is to see on it." Then the old man began to read:
"Once we boys," he said, "went for tote some rice and de nigger-driver he keep a-callin' on us; and I say, 'O, de ole nigger-driver! Den anudder said, 'Fust ting my mammy tole me was, notin' so bad as nigger-driver. Den I made a sing, just puttin' a word, and den anudder word."
Ole massa, he not 'pear to like de idea ob parting wid Phillis jus den, for he know right well dat he not get anoder like her bery soon, and so he tells de trader dat de niggar 'pear bery well, but as for de real work, he got a dozen dat go ahead ob her, and if de gemman want de real workin' niggar, dey step round de oder side de plantation; but de trader, he keep his eye on Phillis, like he understand de business too well to be put off dat way, and he say to massa, tell you what 'tis, mister, dat gal may not hab de genuine work 'bout her now, but if she get tinder old Killall's lash, dar be no trouble bout dat, and den when she good for notin' else, after de work all out ob her, she might keep a little ob her looks, 'nough to make her go for a hundred or so.
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