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Ted was holding the little mirror up to the sky, apparently in an endeavor to look through it. "What is it?" asked Bud, approaching the fire. "Dick has brought back Stella's little pocket mirror," said Ted. "I'd know it anywhere. But the back has been torn off it." "Tooken off ther neck o' an Injun?" said Bud, dropping his usual jolly manner.
Ken Douglass ain't no yeahlin' no moah, honey; he ain't no child to be tooken' an' raised like we did Buffo; he's a strong man an' wants strong meat with salt an' peppeh on it. An' long's he's not robbin' yuah lahdeh what yuh gotta kick about?" But she turned her head away as the girl said bitterly: "And you, too?
If Cap'n Beck is in any one, I'll fetch him out, judge, an' don't you forget it." This division of the search pleased Glory and, springing up, the trio separated at once, nor did they meet again till nightfall. Alas! when reassembled then in the littlest house none had good news to tell. "They ain't been no new old cap'ns tooken in to that 'Harbor' this hull week.
"What in all the world is he doin'?" asked Hockins of the guide in a low tone. "He is taking snuff." "I always s'posed," remarked Ebony, "dat snuff was tooken by de nose!" "So it is, they tell me, in England; but we have a different fashion here, as you see, and quite as foolish." "You don't mean that it's tobacco he treats in that way?" exclaimed Mark.
"You 'member 'bout last Communion Sunday," went on the little girl, "when they hand roun' the little envellups and telled all the folks what was willing to give five dollars more on the pastor's sal'y just to write his name; so Alfred he so frisky 'cause he know how to write; so he tooken one of the little envellups and wroten 'Alfred Gage' on it; so when his papa find out 'bout it he say that kid got to work and pay that five dollars hi'self, 'cause he done sign his name to it."
Gwynne," said the girl in her hoarse, low-pitched voice. "No harm c'n ever come to you as long as you got this with you, in your pocket er anywheres. Hit's a charm an old Injin chief give my Pap when he wuz with the tribe, long before I wuz born. Pap lost it the day before he wuz tooken up by the sheriff, er else he never would ha' had setch bad luck.
Meanwhile Jess poked his black, shaggy head through the tent door, the white of his eyes depicting the anguish of his mind, his voice the despair he felt, answered: "Well, Marse John, before God Almighty, ef somebody ain't tooken stole dem bisket." But he seemed to be burdened with a great weight. At the end of the service he took out Captain Nance and expressed a desire to make a confession.
Dere's 'flictions dat we kin pray agin an' pray out'n ob, an' dere's oders we jes got ter bar, an' we gits so kinder used to'm at las dat we'd be mo' mis'ble ef dey wuz tooken away. We'se got to take de bittah wid de sweet, but, tank de Lawd! de sweet 'domernate in dis yere fam'ly. Now let's hab some praise an' prar. Vilet, honey, sing de hymn you'se moder lern you."
Riley handles him and works him, and all you've got to do when Riley is putting him through his stunts is to stand outside here and hand him things he wants in through the bars. Well, is it a go? Going to take the job?" "Boss," said Red Hoss, "you speaks late I done already tooken it." "Good!" said Powers. "That's the way I love to do business short and sweet.
But when Dinah came in with a platter of ham and eggs, there was such a funny look on the cook's face that Mrs. Bobbsey asked: "Aren't you well, Dinah?" "Oh, yes'm, I'se well enough," the fat cook answered. "But dey shuah is suffin strange gwine on abo'd dish yeah boat." "What's the matter now?" asked Mr. Bobbsey. "A whole loaf of bread was tooken last night," said Dinah.
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