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In a moment, however, Zeb's voice was audible. "Bless yer, you're de all-firedest fools I eber see'd. How does you s'pects I's gwine to light on toder side. Ef one of you'll take me on your back, I won't mind lettin' you try to carry me over; but I tells you I ain't agwine to try it. So you can shut up yer rat-traps."
Anyhow, dere it is. An' I s'pects we'd better git along, Boomerang." The mule never moved, though Eradicate yanked on the reins, and used a splintered whip with energy. "I said as how we'd better git along, Boomerang," went on the darkey, raising his voice, "Dinnah am mos' ready, an' I'm goin' t' giv yo' an extra helpin' ob oats." The effect of these words seemed magical.
He crushed the paper in his hand, and then spread it out to read again the startling news, while he murmured: "The watch of death!" "Shag!" exclaimed the colonel. "Yes, sah!" "We're going fishing tomorrow!" "Is we, Colonel? Den I s'pects yo'll want t' git " "Get everything ready, yes. We'll go again to that place where Miss Mason found me.
And she sat waiting patiently for some time before she rang her bell. Sally answered it. "Go down, Sally, and tell Katie that I am here and ready to see her now," said Lady Vincent. Sally went on this errand, but soon returned and said: "If you please, ma'am, Aunt Katie aint nowhere downstairs. I s'pects she's done gone to bed."
"I I s'pects I'd better go back an' 'tend t' mah weedin'!" exclaimed Ponto, looking as pale as a colored man can. look. "Weeds grow powerful fast in dis climate. Dey'll choke de flowers in about an hour. I'se got t' 'tend t' 'em immejeet, sah. I ain't got no time t' go huntin' horned toads.
'Wal, folks might say none o' my bisness; but I s'pects it'll turn out some o' my bisness, and yourn too, if he don't look sharp arter it, says Tom. 'It's no good, that 'are box ain't. "'Why don't you speak to Mr. More? says I.
I suppose Kedge is very busy now?" "Well, yes, sah, I s'pects so. He had dat ar' animal case." "Oh, you mean Mr. Campbell's?" "Yes, sah! Dat's it. I knowed it was a camel or a elephant." "Yes, I suppose he's busy on that. So don't bother him. Anyhow, it would take him as long to get here, pick up the loose ends, and start out right, as it would take me to finish." "Mo' so, Colonel," voiced Shag.
"Why, what can it be?" "De sandwiches is gone, dat's what's de mattah!" "The sandwiches, Dinah?" "Yes'm, de sandwiches what I done make fo' de excursnick!" "Oh, you mean for our picnic, Dinah?" "Yes'm, dat's it. Excursnick I calls it. But de sandwiches I done jest made am gone. I s'pects Massa Bert or his cousin done take 'em fo' fun." "Oh, no, Dinah. Bert nor Harry wouldn't do that.
The murmur of this, by Leslie's side, prevented his understanding the words of those above. The hum of their voices could be heard but not their words. Presently, however, he distinguished a well-known voice evidently in expostulation with some one. "Gorra mighty! does yer s'pects I can jump dat? It's bad 'nough to make me git drownded in dat river without broken my neck down dar!"
"'No, Aunt Katie, I aint dead; but I'm stole! And I s'pects you all is too! And den she boo-hoo-ed right out. "'Sally, says I, 'you is dead! "'No, I aint, Aunt Katie, I's stole! she said, crying as if her heart would break. "'Sally, says I, 'you's dead! Now don't 'ny it! 'Cause what would be de use? For if you aint dead, how came you here? "'I know how I come here well enough.
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