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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Po' li'l honey lambs!" said Mandy with a sigh, as she bent over the wash tub. "I wish dey had some toys of dere own. But den I'se got good clean and soft watah to wash wif, an' dat's a blessin'! Lots of folks hasn't got only hard watah, what won't make no suds."
Yet she was not happy, for her life with David had brought her nothing but surprise and disappointment; something had come between them, she knew not what. "Dey des growed apaht," said the old negro "mammy," who was with them during those two years. "Seemed to des tech each other like mahbles at a single point, stade of meltin' togedder lak two drops of watah runnin' down a window pane.
The handsome Creole's face was aglow with the pure delight of existence. "Well, Mistoo Itchlin, 'ow you enjoyin' that watah? As fah as myseff am concerned, 'I am afloat, I am afloat on the fee-us 'olling tide. I don't think you fine that stweet pwetty dusty to-day, Mistoo Itchlin?" Richling laughed. "It don't inflame my eyes to-day," he said.
I'll tote the wood and watah 'thout waitin' to be asked, an' I'll nevah lick out my tongue at her behine her back as long as I live!" George bit his lips to keep from laughing, although he was touched by the little penitent's distress. "Do you know why I said such hard things to you?" he asked. "It was to open your eyes. I want to make a man of you, John Jay.
"Perfusser, is dem dar penguins good ter eat?" asked Rastus, as he and his learned companion strode through the snow to the rookery. "They are highly esteemed as food," was the reply. "Former expeditions to the South Pole have eaten them and declare that their flesh is as good as chicken." "As good as chicking!" exclaimed Rastus, delightedly. "My, my, yo' make mah mouf watah.
"Law-zee, Marse Marcy," exclaimed Julius, with another laugh, "you jes' oughter see dem niggahs hump demselves when I swum off to de schooner and cotch de bob-stay. 'Oh, dere's one of dem white things, dey holler; but I ain't white and I knows it, and den dey run for de skiff and jump in and go off to de sho' so quick you can't see 'em for de foam dey riz in de watah."
"Glo-ory t' Gawd, Missy! dey smells watah, sho 's yo' bawn!" sobbed Ezra as he broke into a trot beside the wheelers. "'Tain't fur lookit dat-ah huhd a-goin' it! No 'm, Missy, DEY ain't woah out dey smellin' watah an' dey'm gittin' TO it! 'Tain't fur, Missy." Buddy clung to the back of the seat and stared round-eyed into the gloom.
I alus member dat, an how, dat day he foun a spring wid he ol' cane, jes' like a miracle after prayer. It were a putty sight to see mah cows an all de cattle a trottin' fo dat water. De mens dey dug out a round pond fo' de water to run up into outa de spring, an it wuz good watah dat wudn't make de beastes sick, an we-all was sho' happy."
"Oh, mah golly!" cried Eradicate. "Git some watah, somebody, an' put out dat fire!" "No no water!" yelled Tom, who heard him. "Water will only make it worse it'll scatter the blazing gasoline. The feed pipe from the tank must have burst. Throw on sand sand is the only thing to use!" "I'll git a shubble!" cried Eradicate. "I'll git a sand-shubble!" and he tottered off.
It is thah, suh, that those qualities of virility and capacity fo' rulership which make the race what is ah found in theiah highest development on this side of the watah, suh, on this side!" "Quite so! I dare say, quite so!" responded Mr. Barr-Smith. "I hope to know the people of the South better.
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