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"You faller tenk you mek big yoke vat!" said he. "You go to hal, please." "Sure if you bump anything hard," McHale retorted. "Come on, come on!" said Casey impatiently. Wyndham remained with the horses. He was to allow the others half an hour, and then bring the animals down nearer the dam, so that no time should be lost in getting away. His companions vanished in the darkness.
A few minutes later he returned with a white face and staring eyes. "You come," he half-whispered, from the doorway. "Aye see somet'ing." "What is it?" questioned Marsh. "Aye don't know Aye only tenk come quick!" "Go ahead," said Marsh, "we'll follow," and with Nels leading the way they all climbed the stairs. Nels had turned on the electric lights in the halls.
Bless de Lawd! da' nyoung maussa! Ki! enty you tek wife yet? Go 'way! Bless de Lawd!" "I'm glad to see you looking so young, Kitty: your children must be grown up." "Tenk de Lawd, maussa," with a low curtsey, "I day yah yet! Dem pickny, da big man an' 'oman now. Enty you got one piece t'bacca fo' po' ole nigger?"
Such a soft, sweet song; full of delightful suggestion on such a night: Tonk tank tenk tink Ta tink a tonk a tank a tink a Ta ta tink tank ta ta tonk tink Drink a tank a drink a drunk. It was the 'water-dripping' song of the saw-whet owl. But suddenly a deep raucous breathing and a rustle of leaves showed that Ranger was back. He was completely fagged out.
Fine job dollar-half day." "Dollar an' a half! It's too much for the father of eight children for one day! But this see. For baby. And the Lord knows a baby who came through last night and never a yip out of him, he oughter get a million. Here put in bank for baby." "Ah-h! For baby. Tenk you." She beamed and took the money. "You brave man! Him" pointing to Jan's back "brave man too."
Faix, and the same was a forced play, me bein' the height I am, and her over six fut. 'I love yez, I sez; 'say yez love me!" "Well, what did she say?" asked Casey, as Mr. Quilty paused for breath. "She concealed her feelin's," Mr. Quilty replied sadly. "She said, 'Ay tenk ve go home now.
Oscar, flattered by the compliment and the unusual attention, picked up his hat. "Ay ban good powder man. Ay tenk Ay start him now when Ay gat some powder," said he. He smiled at them serenely. "Mebbe if t'ree, four you faller come by me you svear Ay ban home all night?" he suggested ingenuously. But there was an objection to the immediate execution of the plan.
As I waited in the black woods I heard a sweet sound of dripping water: 'Tink tank tenk tink, Ta tink tank tenk tonk. I did not know of any spring so near, and in the hot night it was a glad find. But the sound led me to the bough of an oak-tree, where I found its source.
"Aye yust keep on runnin'. Fallers ent got breath to call me fule ven Aye run. Aye tenk das best vay." We picked Bost up again thirty yards behind. Maybe he would have run better if he hadn't choked so in his conversation. In another minute we landed him abreast of Ole again. He got out and sprinted for the third time. He wabbled as he did it. "Ole," he panted, "I've been mistaken in you.
His mental engine, so far as could be judged by its verbal expression, turned over stiffly. Apparently it had never been run enough to be smoothed down at least in English. But his contribution to the debate at this juncture was noteworthy. Said he: "Say, Ay tenk Ay blow dat dam, easy!" They stared at him for a moment, while the suggestion took root.
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