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Updated: August 28, 2024
Here we anchored and rolled heavily through the night, a regular seesaw of head and heels. Seamen have prejudices about ships, pronouncing some steady and others 'uncommon lively. I find them under most circumstances 'much of a muchness. The next morning carried us forty miles along the Bassam country and villages, Little, Piccaninny, and Great, to Grand Bassam.
"Ab um here, sar keep im warm," replied the woman, pointing to a roll of blanket, in which the little creature was enveloped. "Let us see him, Mattee." "No, sar, too cold yet bye bye, massa, see um; make very fine sleep now. Suppose white piccaninny, suppose black piccaninny all same, like plenty sleep. Um know very well, hab plenty work to do bye and bye sleep all dey can, when lilly."
Horror and indignation at the possibility that the Piccaninny should be in subjection to anyone but himself; irritated impatience that the O'Shaughnessys should be expected to pay for what they desired, like any ordinary, commonplace family; chuckling delight over the smartness of the child; and finally an even greater inability than his sons to say "No" to a charming woman!
"Well, Mattee, how are you?" said the planter. "Where's the piccaninny?" "Ab um here, sar keep im warm," replied the woman, pointing to a roll of blanket, in which the little creature was enveloped. "Let us see him, Mattee." "No sar, too cold yet bye bye, massa, see um; make very fine sleep now. Suppose white piccaninny, suppose black piccaninny all same like plenty sleep.
They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him. 'The great white father, he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, 'is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates. 'Me Tiger Lily, that lovely creature would reply.
He tossed the bullhead into a pail, and, spying a piccaninny scudding round a corner, called: "Here, you chocolate drop, take this yer fish ter yer mammy. Two mor, 'n' I'll hev 'nuff fer supper. Set down," he added to his guest. "Thanks," said Bernard, hunting vainly for a clean spot on the string-piece. He lit a cigarette as a sanitary precaution, and bethought him to offer one to Hinchey.
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