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I told Big Mose to be still and go to sleep, 'cause it seemed to me if I went to sleep when t'ings looked bad, dey would be all right agin in de mornin'. But, he wouldn't be still and says, 'I tell you, Cato, dar am Injines crawlin' around ob dis house dis very minute, 'cause I can hear dar knees and hands on de ground. I couldn't make Big Mose keep quiet.
He's jes dat full o' good t'ings dat he won't need no mo' for a week at de berry least." "Tell the truth, Berry; when did you eat last?" "Wal, I 'clar, Miss Mollie, ef Berry don't make no mistake, he bed a squar meal night afo' las', afo' we leave Saint Lewy. De yemergrant train runs mighty slow, an' Berry wa'n't patronizin' none o' dem cheap shops 'long de way not much; yah, yah!"
For there be nothing else for he round here now. Every stone on t' beach reminds he of his terrible misfortune." He had said this often enough before, but one day it struck him "When you wants to outwit a beaver, youse got to bank on dem t'ings that are real part of his make-up, and which he can no more help than a bear can help licking molasses.
"A strange place truly, but very dark," said Rosco; "does it extend far?" "You'll see, jus' now," muttered the negro, obtaining a light by means of flint and steel, with which he kindled a torch. "You see I's bin 'splorin' here before an' got t'ings ready."
An' t' t'ink dat I were hit by dat monstrousness machine, an' not hurted! Mah golly! T'ings am suttinly happenin'! G'lang, Boomerang!" "This machine has more possibilities in it than I suspected," mused Tom. "But one thing I've got to change, and that is the gasolene and spark controls. I don't like them the way they are. I want a better leverage, just as Eradicate needed on his wagon.
Down he went, and over went Fuz on top of him; and then there were four or five boys all in a heap, with Dick's basket upset just beyond them, and Dick himself diving hither and thither after its late contents, and exclaiming, "Cap'n Dab's come! I's all right now. Jes' let me pick up some ob dese t'ings."
And fifty cents for every meal. Nobody got so much money as that. "It is the same to bring t'ings in. Not'ing is cheaper. Jean Bateese Gagnon, he get a big book from outside. In that book there is all things to buy and pictures to show them. The people outside will send you the t'ings. You send money in a letter." "Mail order catalogue," suggested Ambrose.
Maria busied herself with her fish for a minute, turning and washing it; then without looking up from her work she said in a lowered tone, " 'Spect de overseer, he don't hab no favour to such ways and meetin's." "But, with me?" I said; "and with aunt Gary's leave?" "S'pose he like to fix t'ings his own way," said Maria. "Does he forbid them to come?" I asked.
"Indeet it was, t'ough; I mentioned it several times, and told them how long we had been on the roat, and how you trove, and how you had sold the sleigh and horses already, and a dozen other t'ings. Oh! we talket a great deal of you, Corny; that is, I dit, and the girls listened." "Was my name mentioned by either of the young ladies, Dirck, in direct terms?"
"Well, what is it? Why are you in such haste to get away?" "Um! Ah! Well, I don't laiks fo' t' tell yo' Colonel!" and Shag seemed uneasy. "You don't like to tell me? Look here, you black rascal! don't try to hide anything from me, do you hear? You know me, and " "Oh, indeedy I does know yo', Colonel! Dat's jest why I don't wan t' tell yo'! It it's 'bout one ob dem t'ings!" "What things?
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