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One ob de preachers was a-tellin' about ole mudder Ebe a-eatin' de apple, and says he: De sarpint fus' come along wid a red apple, an' says he: You gib dis yer to your husban', an' he think it so mighty good dat when he done eat it he gib you anything you ax him fur, ef you tell him whar de tree is. Ebe, she took one bite, an' den she frew dat apple away.
"We were about twenty-four hours from port, an' the sarpint was still following us; and at six o'clock in the evening the officers puffected all their arrangements for ketching the creetur at eight o'clock next morning.
We must have boats and plenty of them to cross to the fort." "That's what struck me last night, Colonel. So I left the others ter watch the fort an' a sarpint that wriggled into aour han's yesterday and come kitin' down here for orders." "A serpent, 'Siah?" said Warner. "Who is it?" "One o' them Yorkers, an' one that I've not had my eyes on let alone my hands for a good many months.
But, on leaving the house, I did not forget the dust-colored old woman, whose last words to me, as I tipped her with a gratuity, were oracular: "Forty long years and more have I lived in lodgin'-houses and never before seen a sarpint. It behooves all on us, now, to be watchful for what may be coming next, and wakeful. Circumspectangular."
This account I had from more than one credulous witness: certain it is, if Sarpint be fond of fish, he is no bad judge in selecting this as a residence; for about this same island there are abundance and variety, both to be met with at all hours, as I can testify, having sat in a punt, bearing a wary eye for hours at a stretch, and catching all sorts of things except a sight of the "sarpint."
"I saw him, I tell you, Master Charles, as plain as I see you now; and as true as I am standing by your side the sarpint jumped right over the Amphitrite when Gil Saul and I was a-looking up, and carried away our maintopmast and everything belonging to it!" "Well, it must have been wonderful, Jim," said I.
Yet o' coorse 'tain't to be expected as Passon would send for the town-crier from Riversford to ring a bell through the village an' say as 'ow he 'adn't nothin' to dp with Miss Vancourt nor she with 'im. Onny the worst of it is that in this wurrld lies is allus taken for truth since the beginnin', when the Sarpint told the first big whopper in the Garden of Eden an' took in poor silly Eve.
I shall see that sarpint or ghost again, I feel sure. "What with his face and his words, and the bad smell from the fog, I confess I began to feel queer myself not frightened exactly but I'd have much rather have been on Southsea common in the broad daylight than where I was at that moment, I can tell you." "Did you see anything, Jim?" I asked the old sailor at this juncture.
She made a movement forward. "Hyar! you Molly!" Sandy clung to her. "If you raise that stone 'twill be the last of you. I've got a horned toad there and a poison sarpint." "Then I'll I'll tell Dad." Molly shrank back, though not wholly convinced. It was time for compromise, and Sandy, with a sickening fear, recognized it and blindly fell upon the one thing that could have swayed the girl.
"`That's a good un, Gil Saul, I sez. `Don't you let none of the other hands hear what you've told me, that you've seen the great sea sarpint, or you'll never get the end of it. "Gil got angry at this, forgetting his fright in his passion at my doubting his word like. "`But it was the sea sarpint, I tells you, or its own brother if it wasn't.
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