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They listened for some time, and heard the voices of four different white men, as they judged from their dialect. "I done tole you I can't cross de riber to-night. We should all be drownded, shore," replied an unmistakable negro. The whinnying of a horse near the two wanderers attracted their attention, and Fronklyn went over to look at the animal.
"Suppose we had left the boats?" "Mossifus! He tell four stout boys to git in de club-boat, and streak it down de riber like an alligator arter a possum. Yah! ha, ha!" roared Cyd, holding on to his sides. "Do you see why I have taken all the boats?" "Yes, Dandy Dan; I sees into it jes like a millstone. You'se got a long head, Dan. But what ye gwine to do wid de paint?"
Den I knows it is de fulfillment ob dat promis; 'I would soon be undah my own vine an' fig tree' and hab no feah of bein' sold down de riber to a mean Marse. I recalls der wuz Thorton Powell, Ben Sales and Charley Releford among de preachahs.
Don't you see he's growin better all de time? Dar; dat'll do," replied Quin, as he carried the bucket to the forecastle. "Wha wha what's the matter?" demanded Cyd. "Do you feel better, Cyd?" asked Dan, tenderly, as he permitted the patient to roll over into the standing room. "Yes, sar! 'I's born way down 'pon de Mississip; I's crossed de riber on a cotton-wood chip,"
"Are those four very large, long as this cabin is wide?" asked the lieutenant with interest. "No, sar!" exclaimed Job with energy. "But they must have had very big guns." "Yes, sar; but dey done tote 'em all ober to de Mis'sip Riber."
This is how it read: "judg lemond yer Dater iz wel and in Gud hans. You must gib 1000 dollars in Gold and She wil kum hum put Mony in Holler Tre whar Riber Bens 4 mile belo bridge-water nex Mundy Eve. If de Man Who Kums for de Gold gits shot or tuk yer Dater wil dy. "Sind Po Wite." Judge LeMonde was some time deciphering the note.
Clifford went out to question them. "Yes, Mr. Burt come up in de mawnin' an' stirred us all up right smart, slashed down a tree hisself to show a new gawky hand dat's cuttin' by de cord how to 'arn his salt; den he put out wid his rafle in a bee-line toward de riber. Dat's de last we seed ob him;" and Abram went stolidly on to unhitch and care for his horses. Mr.
"Say no more about it; perhaps you will get it again, for those men only wish to get across the river," added Deck in a milder tone. "You would not take them over, and they intend to ferry themselves across." "I can't ferry dem ober in de night, when de riber is ragin' like a roarin' lion seekin' wem he mout devour.
Dey's all comes to de greement to come away from de country, fraid ob de war, and all de fadders ob all de nabors here take all der niggers and der stock and go up de country to de riber dat's named de Holsten, and dare dey built heep flat boats, and in de spring dey starts down de riber.
"Red Feather Sioux chief he neber tell lie he speak wid single tongue he love white folks." "I counted five warriors with you; are they all you have?" "Dey all hab no more." Melville believed the Indian spoke the truth. "Where are the rest?" "Go down oder side Muddy Riber won't come here." Melville was inclined to credit this statement also.
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