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"Don't I know 'is name at least part of it; an' the 'abitation of 'is wife, or sweet-'eart, or sister, or suthin' o' that sort?" "Oh, ah, werry true," replied Little Jim, with a terminating "sk!" "Well, that bein' 'ow it is, we han't let 'im off just yet, d'ye see? So, now we'll go an' turn in."
Course it was a mistake o' mine; but ain't we all liable to go a bit astray? "I'm jest givin' yeh these few examples t' show yeh that things wasn't altogether O.K. 'tween me an' the crew. They was always swearin' at me, an' callin' of me names, an' heavin' things at me head, because I'd done or hadn't done suthin' or other.
Baines, suthin' out of the ordinary, and always I got a feelin' like I got a right to know." "Yes," said Scattergood, "seems as though you had a right to know." "Folks is passin' it about that he's comin' home. Is there any truth into it?" "I calc'late it's jest talk," said Scattergood. "Nobody knows where he is." "He'll come sometime," she said.
He got suthin very pertickler fo' Miss Jinny." "Do you know him?" Clarence demanded. "No sah yessah leastwise I'be seed 'um. Name's Robimson." The word was hardly out of his mouth before Virginia had leaped down the four feet from the porch to the flower-bed and was running across the lawn toward the shrubbery.
"I dunno who the feller is, or how much money he gin Joe in the fust place to help pay for the fiddle some, of course. But if Joe paid Hopewell a hundred dollars for the thing you kin jest bet he 'spected to git ha'f as much ag'in for it. "But I reckon the feller's reneged or suthin'. Joe ain't happy about it he! he!
"'Don't know, sir; I heard 'em ravin' an' screamin' like lunatics, but I can't get a word out of 'em. Think they must all have become mad, an' th' mate kicked Towers again t' relieve his feelin's. "He'd just finished speakin' when suthin' busted underneath th' bo'sun.
"Don' rekerlek, massa, it's so long ago." "But make an effort." "Well, Massa Raleigh, 'pears to me I do remember suthin', I do b'lieve yes, dis's jist how 'twas. Spect I might as well make a crean breast ob it. I's alwes had it hangin' roun' my conscious; do'no' but I's done grad to git rid ob it. Alwes spected massa 'd be 'xcusin' Cap o' turnin' tief."
And Buck's added puzzlement found expression in words, while his eyes watched closely for some definite cause. "Ther's suthin' amiss with Cæsar," he said, with an unconcern of manner which his words belied. "What do you mean?" Joan's eyes lifted to his in sudden alarm. Then she added, "I seemed to notice something." "Seems like he's drunk." Buck laughed. "Perhaps the earth's shaking.
"For de Lawd's sake, yo' ain't gwine to jump dat reef, is yo'?" cried Rastus, in an agony of terror. But it was too late to question the old man's intentions: we were already in the back swash of the breakers. "Cotch suthin!" he shouted again, as our craft on the crest of a mighty roller shot onward to seeming destruction.
Go and hunt up the Spectator, child, and look for the whaling news perhaps there may be suthin' about the sealers too." Mary did not require to be told twice to do as her uncle requested. The paper was soon found, and the column that contained the marine intelligence consulted.
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