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Many time me stan' by dat keg, t'inkin', t'inkin', t'inkin' if me stuff de light in it, and blow de pyrits vid all dere tings to 'warsl smash; but no me tinks dat some of dem wasn't all so bad as each oder."
Dey tinks me alone wid Bungo an' Letta, ho! ho! but me's got cumpiny dis day. Sit down an' grub wat yous can. Doo you good. Doo Letta and Bungo good. Doos all good. Fire away! Ha! ha-a! Keep you's nose out o' dat pie, Bungo, you brute. Vous git sik eff you heat more."
It seems hard when there are so many stout hearts and ready arms here, willing to risk their lives in the attempt to save. Those shoals, Vingo, are the only unkind thing there is about our cherished island; but the will of God be done. Truly his ways are unsearchable." "Den you tinks, massa, dis little sea-flower was left here trough mistake, by de Lord?"
Don' you go, an ax an ole man like me if I tinks dat ole miss went away cos you was comin' an' if it's my true b'lief dat she'll neber come back while you is h'yar. Don' ask me nuffin like dat, Mahs' Junius. Ise libed in dis place all my bawn days, an' I ain't neber done nuffin to you, Mahs' Junius, 'cept keepin' you from breakin' you neck when you was too little to know better.
Vic was now fairly started on the subject of her wrongs, and hurried on before Elsie could stop her, with all the energy of a belated steam engine. Elizabeth had walked into the other room, and Victoria took that opportunity to pour out her sorrows with the utmost freedom to Elsie. "Miss Elsie, sometimes I tinks I can't stand it.
"What do you think, Cyd?" "Hossifus! Cyd tinks he's sleepy," yawned he, opening his mouth in a fearful gape. "I's stand up to dat, for shore." "Very well; but one of us shall stand watch while the others sleep. Which shall it be?" "I'll be de fus. I done sleep some last night," said Quin. "You didn't shet your eyes once." "Whose turn next?" "Cyd's, for sartin. You'm did a big ting last night, Dan.
Black niggers ain't so easy putt off de scent. Dey tinks we's tumble ober de precipis an' busted ourselbes." "Lucky for us that they think so," said Hockins, in a soft tone of satisfaction. "But now, what are we to do? It was bad enough clamberin' up here in blazin' excitement to save our lives, but it will be ten times worse gettin' down again in cold blood when they're gone."
Then he heard voices: "What was that, Jacob?" "A leetle hund, I tinks." "A hund? You shoot him not! You save bullets for bigger ting. See?" Oh, where was Pat Rooney! It was fully an hour before the sentry's pace changed and the step sounded like Pat's. Again Job barked, and a hoot like an owl's replied. It was Tim's father!
"No, sah," said Matthias, "I'm done bein' a slave jes now, an' ef you want to make me hit you I shall jes do it; fur you no bizness in de law specially tryin' to put it on a poor ole nigger who can't go by ye 'thout your grabbin' at him jes ready to kill, an' all kase you's done suthin' you's shamed of an' tinks he knows it. I'm gwine over to the groun' room." I feared Mr.
I wish I had seen you an hour ago. I 've been playing 'the bank, and they 've cleaned me flat. They say that's the squarest game on earth, but the cards do run dead wrong for me. Where you going to eat? Well, say, as the tramp says, 'Me stomach tinks me troat's cut. Back me against a supper, will you? It's a hundred to one I get the best of it."
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