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"One moment, uncle," interrupted Hamil, smiling; "is that the pomelo grove? And is that gentleman yonder Mr. Cardross?" "Yaas-suh." He stood silent a moment thoughtfully watching the distant figure through the vista of green leaves, white blossoms, and great clusters of fruit hanging like globes of palest gold in the sun. "I think," he said absently, "that I'll step over and speak to Mr.
The aged negro rose, hat doffed, juicy traces of forbidden sapodillas on his face which he naïvely removed with the back of the blackest and most grotesquely wrinkled hand Hamil had ever seen. "Yaas-suh; 'scusin' de 'gator, wile-cat love de mud-fish mostest; yaas, suh. Ole torm-cat he fish de crick lak he was no 'count Seminole trash "
One of the white-haired, black-skinned children of men though the point is locally disputed looked up from the grass where he squatted gathering ripe fruit under a sapodilla tree; and to an inquiry: "Yaas-suh, yaas-suh; Mistuh Cahdhoss in de pomelo g'ove, suh, feedin' mud-cat to de wile-puss." "Doing what?" "Feedin' mud-fish to de wile-cat, de wile lynx-cat, suh."
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