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"Ef warfare lays ahead of us we hev need ter stand tergether solid an' thar's good men amongst us thet wouldn't nuver fergive affrontin' old Caleb's memory by plum lookin' over his gal's husband. Thet's my counsel, an' ef ye hain't a-goin' ter heed hit " The quiet voice ripped abruptly into an explosiveness under which some of them cowered as under a lash.
"Hello, yerself," he managed to ejaculate thickly. "Who are yer? frien' o' mine?" "Why, don't yer remember me, ol' man? I'm the feller who wus scrubbin' the paint on the Adventurer. We wus talkin' tergether comin' up. I wus goin' fer ter enlist." "Hell! yes; glad ter see yer. Sum hot whisky et this camp tried eny?" "No," I answered, grasping at the opportunity to arouse his generosity.
"Why, Gin'ral, I ha'n't seed him fur fourteen year; but I sh'u'd know him, ef his face war as black as it war one night when we went ter a nigger shindy tergether!" The gentleman colored up to the roots of his hair, and stammered out, "That was in my boy days, General, when I was sowing my wild oats."
"Yes; all run tergether like the printin', ye know so he couldn't tell one letter from t'other. 'T wa'n't only a little at first. Why, he thought 't was jest somethin' the matter with the printin' itself; an' " "And WASN'T it the printing at ALL?" The boy was on his feet now. His face was a little white and strained- looking, as he asked the question. "Why, no, dearie.
Folks have told me," a twinkle of amusement in his eye at the absurdity, "that yew fight among yerselves like cats an' dogs, when, law! I never see sech a clever lot o' women gathered tergether in all my life. An' I believe Mother, I hain't a-sayin' nothin'! I jest want ter let 'em know what I think on 'em. I believe that thar must be three hunderd hearts in this here place 'stid o' thirty.
He's the only Britisher aboard who wouldn't cut and run in a minute; besides he's got a girl at Porto Grande." "And that fellow Anderson who was with Estada?" "The lowest kind of a Swede cur he'll do more dirt than a Portugee. I know what yer thinkin' 'bout. I had them notions too when I fu'st come aboard gettin' all the decent sort tergether, and takin' the vessel.
"I hev hearn folks 'low ez a pa'tridge up hyar will look ez big ez a Dominicky rooster. An' ef ye listens ye kin hear words from somewhar. An' sometimes in the cattle-herdin' season the beastises will kem an' crowd tergether, an' stan' on the bald in the moonlight all night."
Now we're gwine out ter de cotton compress, an' git a lot er colored men tergether, an' ef de w'ite folks 'sturbs me, I shouldn't be s'prise' ef dere'd be a mix-up; an' ef dere is, me an one w'ite man 'll stan' befo' de jedgment th'one er God dis day; an' it won't be me w'at'll be 'feared er de jedgment. Come along, boys!
When they're clean down and done for it ain't more'n a year or two 'fore they got 'em kivered all over with leaves, and then they git tergether and hev a quiltin' party and purty soon they're all over blankets o' green moss, and the others jes stand 'round solemn and straight like's if they was mountin' guard over their graves.
"Hoof marks hyar hoof-marks thar as if they didn't rightly know which way ter go in the marshy ground 'bout Sinking Creek. But at last they 'peared ter git tergether, an' off they tracked ter the west " A paroxysm of coughs intervened, and the attention of the group failed to follow the words that they interspersed.
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