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"Shut up!" piped Jenks, coming close to Scotch, at whom he shook his fist threateningly. "Shut up, or I will thump you!" "Don't you dare do it here. If you do, I'll " "What?" "I'll see you later." "Landy massy!" spluttered Nancy. "I do believe you've both been tooken crazy!"
That is the question I want answered," continued the officer impatiently. "You can't do not'ing wid me, Massa Ossifer, and I must tooken my chance to go up in de boat. Better hab my froat cut 'n be chawed up by a big alligator. Was you ever bit by an alligator, Massa Ossifer?" "I never was." "I knows about dat, massa," added Quimp, as he bared his leg, and showed an ugly scar.
The last dram of Bird had been a very heavy one, and the engineer realized that he could not hold out much longer. "What's that tandem team fer?" asked Graines, in the thickest of tones, while he swayed back and forth as Bird was doing by this time. "The Trafladagar's gwine to tow the West Wind out; and both on 'em's sure to be tooken," stammered the mate.
To my continued, clear, and gentle inquiries, the boy replied, persistently and consistently, that nobody tied him there, "not Cousin Gertrude, nor Bridget, nor the baby, nor mamma, nor Jane, nor papa, nor the black kitty"; he was "just tooken up all at once into the tree, and that was all there was about it." He "s'posed it must have been God, or something like that, did it."
"There isn't any more milk at the camp, and the farm lady hasn't any, and " "Mother wants some to make the surprise-pudding," added Bunny. "I guess we didn't ought to have tooken that for our play-game," he went on all mixed up in his English. "No," said Sue, "maybe we oughtn't. Let me think now." "What you going to think?" asked Bunny.
I hearn of your marriage to the Printcis Alexandry, & ment ter writ you a congratoolatory letter at the time, but I've bin bildin a barn this summer, & hain't had no time to write letters to folks. Excoose me. Numeris changes has tooken place since we met in the body politic. The body politic, in fack, is sick. I sometimes think it has got biles, friend Wales.
"My Teddy can't run, even if her eyes can light up," said Sue, making the bear's eyes blink. "My train didn't run away, it was tooken," said Bunny. "And some day I'm going to find the one that tooked it." Bunny did not speak as his school teacher would have had him, but he meant the same thing as if he had spoken correctly. "Well, they sha'n't touch my Teddy bear!" said Sue.
"I'd ought to tooken care of Perdita better," he would sob. "I'd ought to watched her better." "There, there, boy," Catherine and Polly soothed him. "You did your best, and she's home now, all safe, and won't go journeying again, ever. She didn't like Hotspur's house, and she will stay home with Peter." "O, Catherine," sighed Polly.
"Yas, mar'm" chuckled the old man. "I had to be. I never would a-got him! Oh, I's tellin' de trufe, Miss Hallie. Dis' here ol' sinner tooken flewed off a boat what was comin' up de river. Yas'm. And he sure was old enough to know better." "And you saw him fly off the boat?" "Oh, yas'm. I seed him. I seed him," and Uncle Billy floundered for a moment, caught in his own trap.
As the boys went back to wash and dress themselves, they heard Balla explaining to Lucy Ann and some of the other servants that "the man them chillern let git away had just come back and tooken out the one he had locked up"; a solution of the mystery he always stoutly insisted upon.
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