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"Howdy, marsters," he muttered, in answer to the lawyer's greeting, raising a trembling hand to his wrinkled forehead. "Y'all ain' seen nuttin' er ole miss's yaller cat, Beulah, I reckon?" Peterkin, who had eyed him with the peculiar disfavour felt for the black man by the low-born white, evinced a sudden interest out of all proportion to Carraway's conception of the loss.
"Gord! I knowed it!" he cried, suddenly rising upright, and, with beaming face, stretching both arms toward the door. "Dyah dee come! Now watch 'em smile. All y'all jes stand back. Heah de one you lookin' for. Marster Mymy heah's Little Ephum!" And with a smile on his face he sank back into his son's arms.
'E's wort' two hondred pesos." Murphy, the Swede, followed quickly: "Aye ban' send may vages home to may ole' moder, but aye skall bat you some." "Haven't you boys risked enough already?" ventured Miss Chapin. "Remember, it will go pretty hard with the losers." "Harder the better," came a voice. "Y'all don't have to bet, jest because I'm h'yar," gibed Gallagher. "God!
The men and women of this benighted nashin have an ear for anything, provided it matters nothing: talk Jology, Conchology, Entomology, Theology, Meteorology, Astronomy, Deuteronomy, Botheronomy, or Boshology, and one is listened to with rivirence, because these are all far-off things in fogs; but at a word about the great, near, useful art of Healing, y'all stop your ears; for why? your life and dailianhourly happiness depend on it.
Well, after I had reasoned with him severe that-a-way a while, he says, says he, thess ez sweet an' mild, says he, "Daddy, nex' time y'all gits christened, I'll come down an' be elms-tened right like a good boy." Th' ain't a sweeter child in'ardly 'n what Sonny is, nowheres, git him to feel right comf'table, an' I know it, an' that's why I have patience with his little out'ard ways.
"I'm a-gittin' out de hose to lay de dus' yonnah." He stretched an arm along the cross-bar of the reel, relaxing himself, apparently, for conversation. "Y'all done change consid'able, Miss Airil," he continued, with the directness of one sure of privilege. "You think so, Sam?" "Yes'm. Ev'ybody think so, I reckon. Be'n a tai'ble lot o' talkum 'bout you to-day.
Well, after I had reasoned with him severe that-a-way a while, he says, says he, thess ez sweet an' mild, says he, "Daddy, nex' time y'all gits christened, I'll come down an' be christened right like a good boy." Th' ain't a sweeter child in'ardly 'n what Sonny is, nowheres, git him to feel right comf'table, and I know it, an' that's why I have patience with his little out'ard ways.
"But how much money?" "We got three hundred pesos down, but they sent word they was comin' loaded for b'ar, so we rustled five hundred more." Skinner's eyes gleamed. "I wish I had a couple of hundred to bet on myself." "Broke, eh?" "I'm as clean as a hound's tooth." "I'm sorry y'all tossed off your wages, but" Gallagher started suspiciously "say!
His eyes were cruel, and he had the angry pallor of a dangerous man. "I'll save you a lot of trouble." "Why not do it legal?" expostulated Lee. "It's just as certain." "Yes! Lee is right," echoed the crowd, bent on a Roman holiday. "What y'all aim to do?" whined the thief.
"Who says 'taters don't catch anything?" asked the man of that bait proudly. "Twenty pounds or I'll eat my shirt." Cautiously, very cautiously, lest the fish make a sudden frightened dash for liberty, John drew in line to raise the captive from the water. "Y'all wait a minute," said the southerner. "Land him in my minny net. That's safer."
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