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If he thought I'd run off to tell he'd " "What would he do?" they asked breathlessly. "He'd hide away somehow. 'Twouldn't be so easy to find him. He'll be back in a moment too I couldn't get off before he'd be after me. No; we must wait a bit till I see what he's after." "Why haven't you runned away before?" asked Pamela. "If he's not your father, and if you don't like him."
Nobody did n' notice it at de time, but dat night, on de way home, de gemman's hoss runned away en kill' de coachman.
I lost 'em a long time ago, and went to live with Mag. She licked me every day, so I just runned away I've been here a awful long time." Jinnie considered a moment before explaining an idea that had slipped into her mind as if it belonged there. She would take him home with her. "You're going to Lafe's house," she announced presently. "Happy Pete and me and Peg live at Lafe Grandoken's home.
Hi! didn't she fly roun', and forgot all 'bout Luce, a tryin' to hit dis nig and dis nig scooted and runned, and when missus' hand come down wid de big key, thar warn't no nigger's head at all thar and missus was gwine to lay it on so drefful hard, dat she falled ober hersef right down into de kitchen, and by de time she picked hersef up, bof de nigs war done gone. Ho, ho, ho!
I said to him, "Patsey, how did the bear get away?" "He runned away, sure, sur." "Yes; but how did he get loose?" "He aited the rope aff, I suppose, sure. I seed him goin', and thought it'd be no harm to spake to the boys, sur." "That was all right, Patsey; but you didn't turn him loose, did you?" "I turn him loose, sur! Phat would I be doin' that fur?"
She swarmed at me an' fetch me one kick, she did, an' sent me slap troo a pannel ob de loft door, an' tumbled me down de back stair, whar I felled over de edge an' landed on de top ob a tar barrel w'ich my head run into. I got on my legs, I did, wiv difficulty, an' runned away never a bit de worse not even a headache only it was tree months afore I got dat tar rightly out o' my wool.
An' sure enough he tuk to his heels like a Munster pig. I don't know how it is, but I have always had a strong turn for huntin'. From the time whin I was a small gosoon runnin' after the pigs an' cats, I've bin apt to give chase to anything that runned away from me, an' to forgit myself. So it was now.
He lowered his spear and brought up a struggling frog. Throwing it into a covered box, he peered again into the water. "Where's Lon?" he said, straightening again with another victim. "To Tarrytown." "What's he to Tarrytown fer?" "He's a gittin' Flea and Flukey. That's where they runned to." "He ain't found 'em, has he? Truth, now!"
"Marse Whately des set out ter mar'y you, ez ef you wuz a post dat cud be stood up en mar'd to enybody at eny time. Hi! Miss Lou, I'se bettah off dan you, fer I kin pick en choose my ole man." "Everybody in the world is better off than I am." "I wudn't stan' it, Miss Lou. I sut'ny wudn't. I'd runned away." "How could I run away? Where could I go to?"
On their way to the farm-house at sundown, they passed the spot where the Swede boy had left his first capture, but failed to find him anywhere. "Why, he's runned away!" exclaimed the little girl. The Swede boy shook his head. "Noa; ay keel hame weeth a clode," he said, "an' a bole-snake gote hame." They had many a stout noose stolen during the days that followed.
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