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You put me on the trail of the men in the deserted mansion, you warned me of the log Andy Foger placed across the road, and now you have saved me from Morse." "Oh, dat's nuffin, Mistah Swift. Yo' has suah done lots fo' me. 'Sides, mah mule, Boomerang, am entitled t' de most credit dish yeah time.
"Is eeder ob you boys seen ma Shanghai rooster?" queried the black man, plaintively. "I suah can't fin' him nowhars." "What did you let him out of his coop for?" demanded Mark. "You're always bothering us about that rooster, Washington. He is as elusive as the Fourth Dimension." "I dunno wot dat fourth condension is, Massa Mark; but dat rooster is suah some conclusive.
"He suah am, Massa Tom. Dish yeah mule am almost as sensible as Boomerang, ain't yo'?" and Eradicate patted the big animal he was leading. "I'll send a man down the trail, and maybe he can pick up the missing one," said San Pedro, and while the other natives were quieting the restless mules, one tall black man hastened in the wake of the retreating horses.
"I guess they are sweet!" piped up Freddie in his shrill little voice, "'cause Dinah put lots of sugar in 'em; didn't you, Dinah?" and he looked at Dinah, who had thrust her laughing, black, goodnatured face into the dining room door. "Dat's what I did, honey! Dat's what I did!" she exclaimed. "If anybody's got a toofache he'd better not eat any ob dem cakes, 'cause dey suah am sweet."
Mom Beck, is my mothah's heart all broken? Is that why she is sick so much, and will it kill her suah 'nuff?" "Who's been tellin' you such nonsense?" asked the woman, sharply. "Some ladies at the hotel were talkin' about it. They said that gran'fathah didn't love her any moah, an' it was just a-killin' her." Mom Beck frowned fiercely.
"But yo' gwine t' ride right into d' Injuns. Dee'll git yo' suah." "Nonsense!" I retorted sharply. "I'll get through all right, and we can easily hold out till reinforcements come. Now get on your horse. Remember, the faster you go, the surer you'll be to save us all." He swung himself into the saddle, and turned for a moment to look at me, the tears streaming down his face.
I had heard my father talk of England's power and might, and Mister Moultrie seemed to me a very brave man in his little fort. "Why!" exclaimed the old negro. "You ain't neber read no hist'ry books. I knows some of de gentlemen wid Mister Moultrie. Dey ain't no soldiers. Some is fine gentlemen, to be suah, but it's jist foolishness to fight dat fleet an' army.
Did any of you see him trailing us?" "He did come a little way, when we started," came from Dorothy. "Yes, but Dinah called him back; didn't you?" asked Nan of the cook. "Yes, missis, dat's what I did. An' Snap come. Den, t' make suah he wouldn't sneak off an' foller yo'-all, I shut him up in de kitchen an' gibe him a chicken bone. Arter a while I let him out.
Jack was laughing so that he could not speak, but Mark managed to say: "You mean that the motion of the aeroplane gives you a feeling of mal de mer?" "Dat's wot I done said," Wash replied, seriously. "I nebber in ma life felt so mal-der-merry as I do at dis present onauspicious 'casion; an' if dat mal don't stop merryin' purty quick, I suah shall be ugh! sick ter ma stummick!"
"She suah will look after 'em! But will dey gets enough to eat? Dat's whut I'se askin' yo'!" and she looked earnestly at Mrs. Bobbsey. "Well, you'll be doing the cooking as usual. Dinah," said the children's mother. "I depend on you to feed them well." "Dat's all right, den!" exclaimed Dinah, with a satisfied air.
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