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Dat story do smell rader tall, dat are a fac; yah, yah, yah, and I fell down and rolled ober and ober on de grass, and it's lucky I did, for as I dodged he fetched a back-handed blow at me wid his huntin' whip, that would a cut my head off if it had tooked me round my neck. "My missus larfed right out like any ting, tho' it was so hot, and when missus larf I always know she is good-natured.
Many of the eggs, too, are destroyed, before they are hatched, by vultures and other birds, as well as by serpents. Men also gather them by hundreds, boil them and dry them in the sun to preserve them for use or sale." "The miserable young things seem to have a poor chance of life then," said Mark, sleepily. "Das so, massa. I'd rader be a nigger dan a crokindile."
He turned north, south, east, and west, with inquiring glances at the blank horizon, and of course gave a blank reply. "You see, massa," he said, apologetically, "you hoed a-rollin' ober an' ober in sitch a way, dat it rader confused me, an' I forgits to look whar we was, an' den I was so awrful cut up for fear you's gone dead, dat I t'ink ob nuffin else an' now, it's too late!"
She turned towards Miss Rader. "I have earned it?" she questioned. "Yes, but ." "I am satisfied," she said; then, quoting as near as she could a phrase which had attracted her attention in one of the rare books which she had cast her childish eyes upon, she added, "We do not go to school to obtain prizes, but to acquire knowledge." Miss Rader was seated in her former place when Adèle finished.
"Dat's a good gal," answered the old negro, "you tell him dat I want to see him, but don't tell him what I want him for I rader tell him dat mysef." "Berry well, Auntie," she replied, "de Doctor will come in about dinner time, and as soon as he is done eatin I will talk to him about it. But do you tink he will bring de chile home, yah, and take care ob him?"
With various adventures he made his way home, returned to the company of his own accord, was wounded at Gettysburg, captured, and spent the remainder of war-time in prison. Rader, who drove the lead-horses at my gun almost throughout the war, is mentioned elsewhere, but his record, as well as his pranks and drollery, coupled with his taciturnity, were interesting.
I did t'ink to wait and ask 'e young masser's consent; but Cupid say" not the god of love, but an old negro of that name, Dido's second partner "but Cupid say, 'what odd he make to Masser Mile; he long way off, and he won't care: and so, sah, rader than be tormented so by Cupid, one had altogedder better be married at once dat all, sah."
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