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Dere was orful fightin' fer a while, an' de men widout dere hosses leap outen de woods and shot like mad. It was flash! bang! on eb'ry side. At las' de Linkum men won de day, an' some ob de rebs burst troo de woods an' run, wid Cap'n Lane's men arter dem, an' dey kep' a-chasin' till a bugle call dem back. Den I run to de house, fer dey was bringin' in de pris'ners.
a-way; an' is that sore an' chagrined he jest grabs a gun in a frenzied way an' cashes his chips abrupt. "'No, as I states, says Enright, musin' to himse'f, 'if the lieutenant had only downed that Princess who plays us in as pris'ners so smooth an' easy, it would have been regarded.
It's a reg'lar dome over this pool o' water, and unless there's some passage at the back, up yonder, we're fast pris'ners." Trot looked thoughtfully over her shoulder. "When we're rested," she said, "we will crawl up there and see if there's a way to get out." Cap'n Bill reached in the pocket of his oilskin coat and took out his pipe.
Poor old Jenny had passed so much of her life in the family with "the white folks," that all her sympathies went with them and on the state of their spiritual atmosphere depended all her cheerfulness and comfort; and now the cool, distant, sorrowful condition of the members of the little family circle "ebery single mudder's son and darter ob 'em, superamblated off to derself like pris'ners in a jailhouse" as she said depressed her spirits very much.
The ladies said, It was very pretty; and Miss Darnford, That somebody else had more need to be concerned than the versifier. I knew, said my master, I should get no credit by shewing this. But let us read on, Mr. Williams. So Mr. Williams read: III. Then they, to whom we pris'ners were, Said to us, tauntingly, Now let us hear your Hebrew songs, And pleasant melody.
Thompson's men have give it up as a bad job and gone home." "Did they pass along the road?" exclaimed Rodney. "We never heard them." "I did, and seen 'em too. There was a right smart passel of 'em more'n enough to have made pris'ners of all the Union fellers in the swamp, if they hadn't been afraid to face the rifles that them same Union men know how to shoot with tol'able sure aim."
And another, more general: "Along come the jailer About 'leven o'clock, Bunch o' keys in his right hand, The jailhouse do'h was locked.... 'Cheer up, you pris'ners, I heard that jailer say, 'You got to go to the cane-brakes Foh ninety yeahs to stay!" As you can guess, most of these jail songs and ballads of the underworld could only be printed in asterisks.
We'd better take 'em pris'ners!" "'Pris'ners, hell, says I, 'We'll go and clear the buggars out. So we crept along to the steps and looked down.... " The song had started again: "O Mademerselle from Armenteers, Parley voo?
Now, Zeb, you seed what happen downstars." "Yes, mass'r an' ladies, I kep' my eyes out, fer I tinks my chance is come now, if eber. Cap'n Lane soon come back an' said to de ossifer in charge ob de pris'ners, an' dere was more pris'ners bein' brought in all de time, sez Cap'n Lane, 'De en'my won't stand agin.
The three negroes stood motionless in the dusty hallway, motionless save for the racking of Vannie's sobs. Tump Pack stirred himself. "Well, we gotta git her out." His words trailed off. He stood wrinkling his half-inch of brow. "I wonder would dey exchange pris'ners; wonder ef I could go up an' serve out Cissie's term." "Oh, Tump!" gasped the woman, "ef you only could!"
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