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Pennypoker had cast aside her strict principles of discipline, and coddled him and fussed over him to her heart's content, while Wang openly prided himself on being the means of his recovery. "Wang went 'way off out doors," he had confided to Louise; "all lonee; hollered heap loud to Up-in-Sky. Up-in-Sky no say anything; he sabe, all samee; came down heap quick to help Mas' Ned."
"Do you mean to say that I stole the card from the pack?" "Me allee samee bettee ten dollee you gottee um card somewhere, so be!" was the quick retort. "You will, eh? All right. I'm a betting man, I am. It don't make any difference who I bet with, either. I'll bet you ten dollars that I haven't got the card on me. If one has got it you're the one, for you are doing the trick."
Here the people crowded in so disagreeable a manner to see the white stranger, that his host proposed, in order to avoid them, going in the cool of the evening to a negro village called Samee, at a short distance off. As he was now within two days' journey of the heathen kingdom of Goumba, he had no apprehensions from the Moors, and readily accepted the invitation.
"Me covee allee samee pletty quickee, so be." Hop did cover it, too; and then, folding his arms, he looked at Roche and remained silent for a moment. "Search me, somebody," said the latter, looking around. "Here, Sam! He bet that the jack of hearts was in my bootleg again. You look and see." "All right, Cap," answered the miner.
Makee too much noisee, all samee too much plenty fiahclackers. Kickee like blazes. Plitty near knockee arm outee Song." The boys stripped Farley after breakfast, and found his legs in pretty bad condition. They looked as if Song's gun had been loaded with smallpox, and all of it had lodged in the lad's legs. "Boys, we'll have to take relays in picking the shot from our first victim," said Ted.
Well, I never yet chucked dice with a Chinee; but blamed if I don't do it jest this once. What's it goin' ter be, fur all hands?" "Lat light; allee samee all hands gittee lillee dlink. If me lose me pay; if you lose you allee samee givee um dlinks." "Good!" The saloon keeper brought out the dice, and, shaking them in the leather box, rolled them out. "There yer are!" he said, exultantly.
These various remarks, while evidently spoken in a spirit of levity, aroused strenuous opposition above. There was an immediate movement of the object straddling the limb. Then two arms waved vigorously, and a high-pitched voice sounded: "Hold on, thar, yo-uns! I ain't a 'coon, but I'm acomin' down right smart, all the samee. Don't let loose on me, boys; I ain't wuth the powder.
On the street, in the cars, everywhere I go, I look at shoes or, rather, I did when I was training for this stunt. It was fascinating, really. Why, sometimes the only identifying mark would be the places worn or rubbed by the bones of the man's foot but it was there, allee samee! I nailed 'm, every one! Oh, I didn't remember them all that was only practice.
He was pleased to find that he had a victim. Shuffling the pack well, he spread them out like a fan and held the cards so that some of the faces could be seen by Roche. "You see um jack of hearts?" he asked. "Yes," was the reply. "Allee light; you allee samee lemember um jack of hearts."
It was after midnight when Hop returned to the camp, and when he came he sneaked in quietly. But Cheyenne Charlie was awake, and he let him know that he heard him. "You yaller galoot, you've been fillin' up with tanglefoot ag'in!" he exclaimed in a whisper. "Don't think I don't know." "Allee light, Misler Charlie," was the Chinaman's reply; "me feel allee samee velly goodee. Whattee you care?"
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