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"Well, you see, da aint persackly brother an' sister." "No?" and the surgeon raised his heavy eyebrows as if in surprise. "No, sah. Massah Jack is only de 'dopted son ob de late colonel." "Ah, is that really so? A er nephew, perhaps?" "No, he aint no kin to de Ruthvens. He was washed ashoah from a wrack ten or 'leben years ago.
"Besides, that widow has a lot of children and is after your money." "She ain't got but two chillen. She had moah, but she dun told me all but two was in de seminary." "The seminary?" queried Tom. Then a light broke in on him. "You mean the cemetery." "Persackly de place da puts de dead folks." "Well, they are in the cemetery right enough but they are a long way from being dead."
That horse is my own, purchased in Gunnison from Ralph Verbeck the dealer there. Those horses belong to a set of rascals who captured me and made me their prisoner. I got away from them, and to prevent them from following me I took their horses with me." "Hurmph! Thet's a slick story!" "It's the plain truth. Do I look like a horse thief?" "Not persackly, youngster.
"Now the question is, has she gone past that town, or is she between there and this point?" said Dick. "Persackly," came from Aleck. "An' I dun gib two dollahs to know de answer to dat cojumdrum." "All we can do is to continue the search," said Tom. "But I must say it is getting a good deal like looking for a needle in a haystack."
Bime by, when I got big enough to read, I got a lot o' my eddication from dose cases, yes, Sah! "This hyar story begins dis way. On July 3, 1799 I remember de dates persackly a brig, called de Nancy, lef' Baltimore for Curacao. Her owners were Germans, but 'Merican citizens, yes, Sah.
"Only what?" asked the eldest Rover, as he saw the colored servant hesitate. "Well, to tell de truf, he seems kind of funny to me." "How funny?" "Here," and Aleck tapped his forehead. "Do you mean that he is crazy?" "Not dat persackly, Massah Dick, but he said sum mighty funny t'ings when we was talkin' acted like he was t'inkin' ob sumt'ing else." "Humph!
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