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'Look h'yar, sarpint, says she, 'hab you got anudder ob dem apples in your pocket? An' den he tuk one out, an' gib it to her. ''Cuse me, says she, 'I's gwine ter look up Adam, an' ef he don' want ter know war de tree is wot dese apples grow on, you can hab him fur a corn-field han'.
Christopher Hester had not now heard his name for the first time, though she had never seen him before turned, and approached them. "She'll be all right in a minute or two, Franks," he said. "You told her, doctor, the boy ain't got the smallest hurt? It 'ud break my heart nigh as soon as hers to see the Sarpint come to grief."
A horrible silence succeeded, then a single woman yelled, and her cry was echoed by fifty hoarse voices. The noise came from those at the ropes. They were straining and tugging, and some of them bobbed up and down like peas on a drum. "More on ye! more on ye! We've hooked un, and he's got the pull of a sea sarpint!" The ropes became thick with striving men.
A. Ebe. Q. Whar de Lord put 'em? A. In de garden. Q. What he be de garden? A. Eden. Q. What else he be dere? A. De sarpint. Q. What he be de sarpint? A. De snake. Q. Heigh! What, de snake he 'peak? A. No, him be debbil. And so forth. The reading was much in the same style. William Jameson. And he said to Adam, "Adam! you no muss nyamee dis fruit, else you dead."
Lak as not de sarpint done tricked him into regalin' hisself wid dat apple. But I s'pose you'd lay hit on de germs whut was disportin' deyselves on de apple. But dey ain't no use in 'sputin' dat p'int, 'ca'se de fac' remains dat de apple's done et." "I ain't astin' you to dispute nothin'," cried Amanda, by this time in a high state of indignation.
De sarpint he done fotch mudder Ebe seben apples, an' ebery one she take a bite out of gib her a debbil." As might have been expected, this sermon produced a great sensation, and made a deep impression on the congregation.
"`Because, Jim, sez he, after a while, `it appeared so awful to me when I saw it coming out of the white mist with its glaring red eyes and terrible beak. It was a ghost I feels, if it wasn't the sea sarpint; and whether or no it bodes no good to the man wot sees it, I know. I'm a doomed man.
There, with his head well out of the water, shaped like a big bird, and higher in the air than the main truck of the ship, was a gigantic reptile like a sarpint, only bigger than you ever dreamt of.
Then, suddenly waxing indignant with the author of the mischief, she put her head out of the window, and, espying Pomp on the other side of the stone wall, looking half-repentant and half-struck with the fun of the thing, she shook her fist at him, exclaiming, "Oh, you little sarpint, ef I only had you here, I'd w'ip you till you couldn't stan'."
He was serious, and Clo began to grow dizzy at the thought of so many conquests crowding upon her at once. "I jis' b'lieve he's a sarpint in disguise," said Dolf, with great energy; "one ob de wust kind of old he ones." "Laws, Mr. Dolf, don't say sich things; he's a shinin' light in de sanctumary, I'se certain."
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