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Updated: July 17, 2025
Cautiously approaching the city, I landed at Mr. David Risley's steam saw-mills, and that gentleman kindly secreted my boat in a back counting-room, while I went up town to visit the post-office. By some, to me, unaccountable means, the people had heard of the arrival of the paper boat, and three elaborately dressed negro women accosted me with, "Please show wees tree ladies de little paper boat."
I couldn't wait another twenty-four hours." "My dar-rling!" They stopped, and Friedrich drew her gently into his arms. "Will you let me kiss you?" She lifted her face trustfully to his, and Gray Eagle watched them gravely over the gate. "I wees' I could make you know what you are to me, my pr-rincess, what it means that you give yourself to me.
"Ho!" exclaimed Bunco, with a nod of approval, "and wees kin go huntin' for amoosement in de meaninwhiles." "It's my opinion, sir," observed Old Peter, "that as we're all dependent on the money earned by yourself, the least we can do, is to leave you to settle the matter of when we start, and where we go. What say you, mates?"
De storekeeper gibs a poor nigger only one dollar fur bushel corn, sometimes not so much. Den he makes poor nigger gib him tree dollars fur bag hominy, sometimes more'n dat. Wees wants de goberment to make tings stashionary. Make de storekeeper gib black man one dollar and quarter fur de bushel of corn, and make him sell de poor nigger de bag hominy fur much less dan tree dollars.
Having informed him it was the land which General Grant governed, he exclaimed: "O, you's a Grant man; all rite den; you is one of wees all de same as wees. Den look a-here, boss. I send you to one good place on Alligator Creek, whar Seba Gillings libs. He black man, but he treat you jes like white man."
"Oh yis, wees will," replied Bunco, with a quiet smile. "No, wees won't, ye lump o' mahogany," retorted Muggins. "Don't the coast run nor' and by west here away?" "Troo," assented Bunco with a nod.
It will be all over the Glen this afternoon that the bonny lady fra the inn chose to give her offering of siller to the `Wees, and they will bear themselves haughtily in consequence. Mrs McNab feels that she has been humiliated the day in the eyes of the neighbourhood. No wonder she looks coldly upon you!"
"He don't understand one word," said Miss Burrage, laughing sarcastically, "he don't understand one word of all your bonnys, and wee wees and weenies, Miss Hope; he, unfortunately, don't understand broad Scotch, and maybe he mayn't be so great a proficient as you are in boarding-school French; but I'll try if he can understand me, if you'll tell me what you want."
"Say, is dat guy in dere goin' along to de farm?" "Who?" "Why, dat ike you lef' in de room. Is he goin' down 'long when wees go?" "Oh, Will French! No, Sam. He doesn't know anything about it yet. I may tell him sometime, but he doesn't need that. He is studying to be a lawyer.
"You mean me? It does not sound well to hear that! At first when I awoke on the mountain I was sleepy. I r-realized not what it meant. When I did know, I had no wees' to die at once. I was unarmed myself, and a man in your position would shoot deter-rmined to kill." Pressley smiled at this tribute to his quickness and resolve. "But it is not a question of me.
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