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An' then Richards and the rest come to him an' said as how Seth Stevens was faintin', an' schoolmaster he ran to the crick an' brought water and put over him. An' then I runned to tell you schoolmaster's strong, I guess, stronger nor pappa. I seed him put on his vest, an' Seth Stevens he was settin' up, all blood and water on his face, streaky like; he did look bad. But, Loo say, Loo!
'Well, said Mimi, with a sigh, 'I suppose there aren't, so you might as well tell us what Wainamoinen did next, Pappa Mikko, please. And Father Mikko began again. After the magic kantele was finished, the three great heroes and magicians sailed away again towards the dismal Northland. Ilmarinen led the rowers on one side of the ship, and Lemminkainen on the other, and old Wainamoinen steered.
"I calls ter her sorter soft-like, an' dang me ef she didn't come walkin' right up ter me, not a mite erfeered. She made a funny leetle bow, held out her chubby hand an' says, 'How do ye do, big man. Hev ye seen my pappa an' mamma?
"I insulted the Elder," he said, "and I told him I should leave his house as soon as I could." "You don't mean that!" she exclaimed. "You must take that back, George. I'll speak to pappa; he'll mind me." "No," he replied firmly; "speaking won't do any good. I've made up my mind. It's impossible for me to stay here." "Then you don't care for me. But that's not so. Say it's not so, George.
Then against her protest, Tom accompanied her part way back and they paused for a moment under the thickly covered trellis, for she would not let him approach the house. "I'm sorry we made you so much trouble," he said; "it's only because we want to get to where we can fight for you." "Oh, yess, I know," she answered sadly. "My pappa, it break his heart because he cannot make you ze true welcome.
"I tuck her on my knee, an' leetle by leetle fer she couldn't talk much she told me thet they come from a great, big city whar war 'lectric and steam cyars an' policemen, fer ter play in the woods, an' thet her pappa an' mamma hed gone out on the water in a boat ter ketch a fish fer baby's breakfast.
'I have heard of Mr. Barnum's museum, said Merton. 'That's the idea: it is right there, said Miss McCabe. 'But old man Barnum was not scientific. He saw what our people wanted, but he did not see, Pappa said, how to educate them through their natural instincts. Barnum's mermaid was not genuine business. It confused the popular mind, and fostered superstition and got found out.
Early in the morning of April 7 some slaves of the Carmantee and Pappa tribes who had suffered ill-usage, set on fire the house of Peter van Tilburgh, and, armed with guns and knives, killed and wounded several persons who came to extinguish the flames.
That was why he laid out five millions on his celebrated Museum of Freaks, with a staff of competent professors and lecturers. "The McCabe Museum of Natural Varieties, lectures and all, is open gratuitously to the citizens of our Republic, and to intelligent foreigners." That was how Pappa put it. I say that he dead-headed creation!
She always whispered to them about "de war" and fanned to a flame their desire to be free. At that time Negro children listened to the tales of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, various animal stories and such childish ditties as: "Little Boy, Little Boy who made your breeches? Mamma cut 'em out and pappa sewed de stitches."
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