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"Yes'em, I'se de only one of mammy's chillen livin'. She had 11 chillen. Mah gran'na on pappy's side, she live to be one hundred an ten yeah's ol' powerful ol' ev'y body say, an she were part Indian, gran'ma were, an dat made her live to be ol'. "Me? I had two husband an three chillen. Mah firs' husban die an lef' me wid three little chillens, an mah secon' husban', he die 'bout six yeahs ago.
Unconsciously he was comparing this sickening meretriciousness with the delightful reserve and dignity of another environment, and he felt the quick shame of a schoolboy detected in his first illicit adventure. Red grunted telepathically: "Gawd, Ken, this yeah's a punk layout. Let's go out wheah it's clean."
"Yo'll fin' the smokin' cab up fo'wu'd, suh," said the latter, firmly barring the way. "It's generally forward," answered Thorpe. "This yeah's th' sleepah," protested the functionary. "You pays extry." "I am aware of it," replied Thorpe curtly. "Give me a lower." "Yessah!" acquiesced the darkey, giving way, but still in doubt.
"Make it legal, camel." A man near by prodded Perry. "Give him a piece of paper, camel. Anything'll do." Perry fumbled confusedly in his pocket, found a folded paper and pushed it out through the camel's mouth. Holding it upside down Jumbo pretended to scan it earnestly. "Dis yeah's a special camel's license," he said. "Get you ring ready, camel."
Hand me that line an' I'll tie yo' to them stakes. Betteh throw the stern anchor over, fo' this yeah's a shallows, an' the riveh's eddyin', an' if hit don't go up hit'll go down, an' " "Theh's a head rise coming out the Ohio," someone said. "Yo' won't need no anchor over the stern!" "Sho! I'm glad to see yo'!" Mrs.
"Hello!" he said again. He had turned round the camel's marriage license, which he had been holding upside down, produced spectacles, and was studying it agonizingly. "Why," he exclaimed, and in the pervading silence his words were heard plainly by every one in the room, "this yeah's a sho-nuff marriage permit." "What?" "Huh?" "Say it again, Jumbo!" "Sure you can read?"
Betty shrank away from him quickly, her tawny eyes giving out sparks of fury. "Is you Mistah Pa'khurst, you camel?" Perry made no answer. The crowd pressed up closer and stared at him. He stood frozen rigid with embarrassment, his cardboard face still hungry and sardonic as he regarded the ominous Jumbo. "Y'all bettah speak up!" said Jumbo slowly, "this yeah's a mighty serious mattah.
The crowd pressed up closer and stared at him as he stood frozen rigid with embarrassment, his cardboard face still hungry and sardonic, regarding the ominous Jumbo. "You-all bettah speak up!" said Jumbo slowly, "this yeah's a mighty serous mattah. Outside mah duties at this club ah happens to be a sho-nuff minister in the Firs' Cullud Baptis' Church.
"Why," he exclaimed, and in the pervading silence his words were heard plainly by everyone in the room, "this yeah's a sho-nuff marriage permit." "What?" "Huh?" "Say it again, Jumbo!" "Sure you can read?" Jumbo waved them to silence and Perry's blood burned to fire in his veins as he realized the break he had made. "Yassuh!" repeated Jumbo.
He raised his voice and called up to the acting skipper: "Oh, Babe, is this your island?" The mulatto's miniature head appeared from round the corner of the deck-house. "Yas-suh! This yeah's it." Carlyle joined Ardita. "Looks sort of sporting, doesn't it?" "Yes," she agreed; "but it doesn't look big enough to be much of a hiding-place."
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