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I am looking for poor Nora! Have you seen anything of her?" asked Hannah anxiously. "She was here a-sittin' by dat fire, not half an hour ago. And I lef her to go and fetch my ole 'oman to get somefin hot, and when I come back, jes' dis wery minute, she's gone!" "Where, where did she go?" asked Hannah, clasping hear hands in the agony of her anxiety.
Go 'long out and clean your feet;" but the hubbub was too great for Mammy's words to be heeded; pig-tails were being brandished aloft, and the children all clustered round Harry and Ned, asking questions and clamoring for pig-tails. "Look!" said Harry. "Here's somefin better'n pig-tails," and he drew from his pocket the mangled remains of a dozen or more snow-birds.
I was jist A-BOOMIN'! I swelled aroun', an swelled aroun'; I jist was a-itchin' for 'em to do somefin for to start me. AN' dey was a-waltzin' an a dancin'! MY! but dey was havin' a time! an I jist a-swellin' an' a-swellin' up!
And he pointed to the footprints in the snow; "somefin done tole Hugo not come to-day." "Nonsense!" I cried; "Mr. Wiley is making his lazy beggars cut wood against Christmas." When in this temper the poor fellow had more fear of me than of aught else, and he closed up to my horse's flank, glancing apprehensively to the right and left, his teeth rattling. We went at a brisk trot.
"Is that a coffin you have with you? If so, you are wasting your time. It would not hold me." When a nigger suspects he is being laughed at, all the ferocity of his nature comes to the front; and this man was of the lowest kind. "Dis ain't no coffin for nobody. Dis box is for you. Somefin you lub. Me give him to you!"
For the moment her face was lowering and threatening then it changed again to the same wrinkled Sphynx as before. "Nebber mind you is my boy, an I lubs you, an so you 'sult de ole woman widout de Obi payin' you for it! Call it 'dose, then, honey many's de dose dat dese hans have mixed, dat has made de coffin-maker hab somefin to do and sent de property where it belonged."
I's one o' de ole Blue hen's Chickens, I is! an' den I see dat young man stan' a-starin' an' stiff, lookin' kin' o' up at de ceilin' like he fo'got somefin, an' couldn't 'member it no mo'. Well, I jist march' on dem niggers so, lookin' like a gen'l an' dey jist cave' away befo' me an' out at de do'. An' as dis young man a-goin' out, I heah him say to another nigger, 'Jim, he says, 'you go 'long an' tell de cap'n I be on han' 'bout eight o'clock in de mawnin'; dey's somefin on my mine, he says; 'I don't sleep no mo' dis night.
"You 'member what Aunt Synchy is, now?" "Yes, I remember," said Crawford, "though I forget the name. You are an O Ogee Odee no, O " "An Obi woman!" said the crone, rising and stretching herself to her full height, with a look that was commanding in spite of her squalor. "You 'member somefin, but not much. We be great people in Jamaica.
"Dey's into de lot!" he exclaimed, when he came to the bars. "Dar's Pete Corry's ole straw hat lyin' by de stone-heap. Mus' hab been somefin' won'erful, or he'd nebber forgot his hat." That was an old woodchuck, of course, or he would not have been so large, and it may be he knew those boys as well as Quib did.
Hanging is too good for my lordship and his sham wally wally sham! but it's all de same. And now I go right straight and tell my ladyship all about it," said Katie, settling her turban on her head and hurrying from the room. She met Lady Vincent, elegantly dressed in a rose-colored brocade and adorned with pearls, on her way to the dinner-table. "Oh, my ladyship, I've found out somefin dreadful!
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