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My good star was guiding me; and soon after I was rewarded for the act of prudence. "Say, gal!" continued the mulatta, still addressing herself to Lilian, "wha for you sittin' down dar, gazin' into da water? S'pose you tink you see him shadda dar? Yah, yah, yah!" "Whose shadow?" innocently inquired the girl. I trembled while listening for the reply. "O Lordy! you berry innocent gal, make 'pear!
Emmeline held up her doll to see ITS shadow, and Mr Button held up his pipe. "Come now," said he, putting the pipe back in his mouth, and making to rise, "and shadda off to bed; it's time you were aslape, the both of you." Dick began to yowl. "I don't want to go to bed; I aint tired, Paddy les's stay a little longer."
S'pose dat ere don't mean Edwa'd Wa'ffeld? eh missy yella bar dat him name?" The young girl made no reply; but the crimson disc became widely suffused over her cheek. With a secret joy I beheld its blushing extension. "Yah, yah, yah!" continued her tormentor, "you may see um shadda in da water dat all you ebba see ob Edwa'd Wa'ffeld.
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