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What is that?" "Bad spirit. Him come to do harm. Him bin in the room to-night." They looked at each other in silence. Then Mrs. Armine said: "Is the shutter quite safe now?" "Suttinly." "Then good night, Ibrahim." "Good night, my lady." He went over to the door. "Suttinly the ginnee him bin in the room to-night," he said, solemnly.
"Dem fellers laff fit to bus' deirselfs, an' say, 'Hi dar! wha' dat fine 'coon dawg gwine fer now? "I say, 'Him gwine fer a 'coon, gen'l'men, he suttinly am. Yo' see, I jes nacherly 'bleeged ter say so. Same time, I kin' er jubious.
Now, Marse Benson, w'at happen to yo' las' night am all in de co'se ob a lifetime, an' Ah hope you ain't got no bad feelin's. Yo' suttinly done learn somet'ing new in de way ob tricks. Good-bye, sab, an' mah compliments to yo', Marse Benson."
Bobbsey said it would be the biggest he could buy. "An' I'se gwine t' stuff him wif chestnuts an' oysters," said Dinah. "I tells you what, chilluns, yo' all am suttinly gwine to hab one grand feed." "I wish everybody was," said Flossie, a bit wistfully. "I hope our cat Snoop, wherever he is, has plenty of milk, and some nice turkey bones." "I guess he will have," said Mamma Bobbsey, gently.
She went into her bedroom, and shut and locked the door. "The felucca is here suttinly, my lady!" Ibrahim called from the terrace some ten minutes later; then he came round to the front of the house, and cried out the words again. "I shall be down in a moment." Another ten minutes went by, and then Mrs. Armine appeared.
"The biggest flock o' wild turkeys that ever wuz must hev roosted right 'roun' us," said Shif'less Sol, "'cause I seem to see 'em by the dozens." "More likely fifteen or twenty flocks were scattered about through the woods, and now they have all joined in a common flight." "Mebbe so, but whether one flock or twenty j'ined, this is suttinly Turkeyland. An' did you ever see sech fine turkeys.
"Well, sah, I ain't yered nothin' 'bout de roarin', but he suttinly was 'how-come-ye-so' fer dey couldn't git 'im upstairs 'less dey toted him on dere backs. Marse George Temple gin him his own baid an' sot up mos' ob de night, an' dar he stayed fur fo' days till he come to. Dat's what Todd done tol' me, an' I reckon Todd knows." The colonel was in his den when this conversation took place.
Yas, SUH! Take plenty, suh, Marse Johnson he say to me, he say, 'Dis yere sap come right outen de finest maple tree in de State ob Indianny, day befo' yesterday, he say. A leetle mo' coffee, suh? Yas, suh! Das right! Yo' suttinly gwine like dat ham soon as ever yo' get a piece in yo' mouth, yas, SUH!"
Taken at a disadvantage, the retort courteous failed her for once, and she was devoutly glad for the timely intervention of Red, who thrust his carroty shock into the door at that moment. "Miss Cahtah," he said with solemn gravity. "I'm almighty glad yuh ain't daid!" At her reassuring laugh of relief he added admiringly: "Yuh suttinly are quick on yuh feets, ma'am!
"But never mind, we scared them before they had a chance to eat much." "I 'clar t' goodness sakes alive!" gasped Dinah, when she saw the ice cream freezer carried into her kitchen, "yo' am suttinly a smart boy, Massa Bert dat's what yo' suah am!" "Oh, well, the others helped me find it," said Bert, modestly. As Dinah and Mrs. Bobbsey were dishing out the cream, the colored cook uttered a cry.
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