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'Ca'se ef a li'l' black boy gwine imaginate dey is ghostes, he gwine be skeered in de dark. An' dat a foolish thing for to imaginate. So prisintly all de ghostes am whiff away, like de fog outen de holler whin de wind blow' on it, an' li'l' black Mose he ain' see no ca'se for to remain in dat locality no longer.
What am I goin' to do?" "Why, this is really very interesting!" said the Doctor, taking out his note-book. "What is your name?" "Jim Fenton." "Age?" "Thirty or forty somewhere along there." "H'm!" exclaimed the Doctor, writing out the whole reply. "Occupation?" "M.D., three C's, double X., two I's." "H'm! What do you do?" "Trap, mostly." "Religious?" "When I'm skeered." "Nativity?" "Which?"
He was a navy sailor, he was, and a whole ten-pound battery by hisself. Why, you jest ort to see him waltz his old tin-clad gun-boat up agin one of them reb forts jest naturally skeered 'em half to death before he commenced shooting at all. "'Wasn't he killed at the attack on Vicksburg? "'Yes, yes; you knowed him didn't you? He was a "'He was my father. "'What?
'Don't be skeered, old gal, sounded Gray's voice, odd and unnatural to the ears of the hearers, and far away and independent to himself, 'I ain't so bad as that comes to'
I can stay a whole week on it, and then it'll take me back again. Jest think, now, that little boy of mine has got to be a officer a city marshal of a whole town! That's somethin' like a constable, ain't it? I never knowed he was a officer; he didn't say nothin' about it in his letters. I reckon he thought his old mother'd be skeered about the danger he was in. But, laws!
"Well, that's the time it come up, an' it's never been tired enough to lay down sence." "What became of Gabriel?" "I skeered 'im, and he went off into the woods pertendin' he was tryin' to catch a bullet. That's the kind o' ball I allers use when I have a little game with a rovin' angel that comes kadoodlin' round me." "Did you ever see him afterward?" inquired Yates. "Yes, I seen him.
In thunder tones, he demanded what she was doing, and with a start, which made her drop tacks, hammer, saucer and all, Hannah replied: "Lor', Mas'r Hugh, how you skeered me! Miss 'Lina done order me to take up de carpet, 'case it's ole miss's, and she won't have no low-lived truck tramplin' over it. That's what Miss 'Lina say," and Hannah tossed her head quite conceitedly.
"Why, what did them scamps do?" demanded Mother Mayberry, looking over her glasses in some perturbation as the end of the involved narration began to dawn upon her. "They tooken the other box of soap outen the window and put the verse in it and carried it down to Aunt Prissy and told her Mr. Petway sent it to her. It was a joke they said, but they was good and skeered.
He reckon he gwine be a heap mo' comfortable in he mind sence he know dey ain't no ghosts, an' he reckon he ain' gwine be skeered of nuffin' never no more. He ain't gwine min' de dark, an' he ain't gwine min' de rain-doves whut go, "Ooo-oo-o-o-o!" an' he ain' gwine min' de owls whut go, "Who-who-o-o-o!" an' he ain' gwine min' de wind whut go, "You-you-o-o-o!" nor nuffin, nohow.
It'll take some skittish steerin', fur ef the old raft jest teches the rocks she'll go all to slivers. "'Right you be! sez I. An' we braced up. "Now, ez we soon seen, old 'Ductic was jest a-rearin'. The big raft shivered like a skeered filly ez she ketched the first nip of them cross-currents, an' she commenced ter bulge an' sag like a nonsense.
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