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"I see it!" she said; "don't move and I'll get it. There!" carefully removing something with a corner of her immaculate handkerchief "see?" "Y'sm; thank'e, Miss Julia. Yah! yah! what a li'l spec to make such a rumpus!
He left here 'bout midnight, and I 'spec' by this time he's whippin' Banks in the Valley." During the journey his determination to preserve his incognito was the cause of some embarrassment. A few miles from his quarters he was halted by a sentry. It was in vain that he represented that he was an officer on duty, carrying dispatches.
The darky was a fine specimen of sable humanity, and I readily understood why the practiced eye of the Colonel appreciated his physical developments. 'Scip, I said, 'you must not think of going to-day; the Colonel will be glad to let you remain until you are fully rested. 'Tank you, massa, tank you bery much, but de ole man will spec me, and I orter gwo.
In Edinburgh he was feasted and feted. "You cannot imagine," wrote Steele, "the civilities and honours I had done me there. I never lay better, ate or drank better, or conversed with men of better sense than there." Poets and authors greeted him in verse, he was "Kind Richy Spec, the friend to a' distressed," "Dear Spec," and many stories are told of his doings among these new-found friends.
The dog referred to was a black-and-tan terrier named "Spec," very bright and intelligent and really a member of the family, respected and beloved by ourselves and well known to all who knew us. My father picked up its mother in the "Narrows" while crossing from Fort Hamilton to the fortifications opposite on Staten Island.
She could not let a slave know of her trials and misery. "Poh ting!" ejaculated the old woman in a compassionate tone, but too low for Mrs. Wentworth to hear her. "I 'spec her husband been treatin' her bad. Dem men behave berry bad sometime," and with a sigh she resumed her silence.
"Ob cose it's got money in it," Jeff reasoned. "Nuffin else 'ud be done up to tight and strong. I'se woan open it jes' yet, feared de missus or de colored boys 'spec' someting. Ki! I isn't a-gwine ter be tied up, an' hab dat box whip out in me. I'll tink how I kin hide an' spen' de money kine of slowcution like."
"Best shoot on spec, anyway," Granville answered, somewhat discomposed. "All's fair in war. The fellow's after us no doubt. And, at any rate, if he sees us he may go and report our whereabouts to the village." "What? shoot an unarmed man who shows no signs of hostility! Why, it would be sheer murder," Guy cried, with some horror.
In a letter from Mexico written a year later December 25, 1846, to my mother, he says: "... Can't you cure poor Spec? Cheer him up take him to walk with you and tell the children to cheer him up. ..." In another letter from Mexico to his eldest boy, just after the capture of Vera Cruz, he sends this message to Spec: "... Tell him I wish he was here with me.
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