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Look here!" and Flossie showed where there were some useful presents for the cook, large aprons, warm shoes, an umbrella, and a bright shawl that Dinah had been wanting for a long time. "What? All dem fo' me?" asked the surprised cook. "Good land a' massy! I guess ole Santa Claus done gone an' made a beef-steak this time, suah!" "No, there's no mistake!
"If a man bought a place he'd have to watch it all the time, then?" "Suah, sah." "Thank you," was the reply, "I'll take some place in shallow water where I can build a house and hire some fellow to watch it and work it." "Ain' no trouble hyeh," the boatman said, shrugging his shoulders, "ev'body wo'k his own patch." "But how do you get the sponges?" was the query.
No use ob runnin', for he'll cotch you; when he gets nigh 'nough bang him wid your hoe; if dat don't fotch him, I'll gib him anoder whack and dat'll finish him suah." Fate seemed to have ordered that the younger person should hold the van in the peril, though he was tempted to take his place by his relative, so that the attack of the dog should be met by both at the same instant.
"I guess so," replied Jack, "though it's hard to tell what you really will need on another planet." "All I want is my gun and some ammunition," declared Andy Sudds. "I can get along with that." "How about you, Washington?" asked Jack. "'Well, I suah would laik t' take mah fowls along." "I don't see how you can do that very well, Wash," objected Mr. Henderson.
"Shag!" exclaimed the colonel, when they were tramping through a field near the river, having reached that vantage point by a most prosaic trolley car, "this is a beautiful day!" "It suah am, sah!" "And I'm going to catch some fine fish!" "I suah does hope so, Colonel!" "All right then! Now don't say another word until I speak to you.
An' to t'ink dat Samuel 'Rastus Washington Jackson Johnson, mah own second cousin, should try t' rob mah chicken coop! Oh, won't I gib it t' him!" "Are you sure, Rad?" asked Tom. "Suah? Sartin I'se suah, Massa Tom," was the answer as the startled colored man on the screen stared at the small audience. "I'd know dat face ob his'n anywhere."
There's too much sand and too little rock." "Should they have a rock bottom?" the manufacturer queried. "Rock am de bes', suah," the owner of the ground put in, "but a li'l bit o' san' don' do no hahm. It shows dat de wateh am runnin'." "Yes," said the boy, "the boatman is right there, Mr. Murren, sponges must be in a current after they have once taken hold.
But I don't want to reach under there in the dark and perhaps get bitten and scratched by Snoop, or whatever he has. We'll wait for the flash light." Bert now came running in with this, Sam following when he heard that the cat had something strange under the table in the kitchen. "Dey suah am lots ob t'ings happenin' dis day," observed Sam. Mr. Bobbsey flashed the light under the table.
My feet'll drop off soon I 'specs." "Will they, really, Dinah?" asked Freddie. "And can we watch 'em fall?" "Bress yo' hearts, honeys!" exclaimed the colored cook, "I didn't mean it jest dat way. But suffin's suah gwine t' happen I feels it in mah bones!" And something was to happen, though not exactly what Dinah expected. Finally all was in readiness for the guests.
"I was swinging on a rope, over the haymow, and so was Nan. And Flossie and Freddie were playing on the barn floor under the mow. I fell on the hay and so did Nan, and a whole lot of it slid down and fell on top of Flossie and Freddie and and now they're down under there, I guess!" "Good land ob massy!" exclaimed Dinah. "Dat suah is a lot to happen to mah poor l'il lambkins! Where is you, Flossie?
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