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Young Doc was now present measuring powders into little papers which he folded neatly, while Miss Caroline stood at hand, cowering but stubborn under Clem's violence. "Miss Cahline, yo' suttinly old enough t' know betteh'n that. Ah do wish yo' Paw was about th' house he maghty quickly put yo'-all in yo' place. Now Ah tole yo' Ah ain't go'n' a' have none o' this yeh Doctah foolishness.
I'm sorry it happened." "Oh, dat's all right. Doan't mind me," went on the colored man. "It was mah fault fer gittin in de road. But dat mule Boomerang am suttinly de most outrageous quadruped dat ever circumlocuted." "Why do you call him Boomerang?" asked Tom, wondering if the negro really was hurt. "What fo' I call him Boomerang?
"At the last you suttinly give dat woman her marchin' orders, didn't you, Aunt Dilsey?" "An' sech wuz my intention frum de start off," she confided. "Minute she come th'ough dat back gate yonder I knowed whut she wuz comin' fur an' I wuz set an' ready wid de words waitin' on de tip of my tongue." "Me, I don't fancy dat Duvall neither," stated Jeff.
"I don't want to rub it in none," I says, "with you down and out, but from what I seen around this town to-night I guess you and your own gang got no GREAT objections to shooting from the dark yourselves." "Why don't yo' shoot then?" he says. "It most suttinly is YO' turn now." And he never batted an eye. "Bo," I says, "you got nerve. I LIKE you, Bo. I didn't shoot you, and I ain't going to.
"Lucky our engine didn't go disproportionatin' herself at de mostess criticless moment," put in Washington. "Golly, but she suttinly did hum!" "And you deserve credit for making her do the humming," went on the professor with a smile. "Well, we didn't catch the ghost," remarked Jack, "though I certainly saw him, it or her, whatever the thing is. I felt it too."
"Not take Boomerang? Den I SUTTINLY ain't goin," and Eradicate walked off, highly offended, to give some oats to his faithful if somewhat eccentric steed. After the airship had been sent off there yet remained much for Tom Swift to do.
"Handle her gently, you blackguard," he cried. The man took his hands off. "Suttinly, sah," he said. Hester lifted her eyes, and they were filled with such gratitude and trust that suddenly he was overcome with embarrassment. "Can you walk?" he demanded, somewhat harshly. "Yes, massa." "Then get up," he said, "and follow me." She rose obediently.
Did yo' eber work fer a blacksmith?" "No, not exactly. Well, good-by, Eradicate. I'll look for you some day next week." With that Tom leaped on his machine and speeded off ahead of the colored man and his rig. As he passed the load of fence posts the youth heard Eradicate remark in awestricken tones: "Mah golly! He suttinly go laik de wind!
"Well, seh, Mahstah Majah, of co'se, yo'-all tole me to fix it man own way, an' Ah lay Ah'd do it raghtly an' so Miss Cahline is ve'y busy goin' th'oo th' rooms an' spressin' huhse'f how grand evehthing suttinly do look an' so fothe an' so on, an' sh' ain't payin' much attention Ah reckon sh' ain't huhd raghtly " "Clem the Bible says, 'How forceful are right words!"
She warn't more'n three year old, I jedged, an' she suttinly come from ther city, fer her leetle dress warn't like none I'd ever seen hit hed sorter loose panterloons ter hit, an', although her legs war bare an' all scratched an' bleedin' thar war tiny socks an' shoes on 'em. Thar war tears in her big blue eyes an' on her purty cheeks, but she warn't cryin' none, then.
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