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Guess yeou'd see a thing or tew, an' find livin' on a log come as handy as ef yeou was born a turtle. "Waal, I stood it one summer; but it was the longest kind of a job. Come fall I turned contrary, darned the farm, and vaowed I'd go back tew loggin'. Aunt hed got fond er me by that time, and felt dreadful bad abaout my leavin' on her.
To the adventures and discoveries of the latter we must now turn. Clapperton and Oudney started for Kano, a large Fellatah town on the west of Lake Tchad, on the 14th of December, 1823, followed the Yeou as far as Damasak, and visited the ruins of Birnie, and those of Bera, on the shores of a lake formed by the overflowing of the Yeou, Dogamou and Bekidarfi, all towns of Houssa.
They feed yeou tip top; high up," said he, "I've been ter dinner there w'en they've hed all o' seven kinds er pie on ther table t'onct." "Have they got apples and squash?" jokingly asked the Captain. "Yeou kin jus' bet on thet," was the enthusiastic answer. Just below Northumberland, which place he left at nine o'clock, he encountered a dam and very rough water.
I'll bet anything yeou want to bet, and I don't keer a hang haow much it is! Yeou jest name the amount, and I'll kivver it!" He smashed his fist down on a billiard table as he made this announcement. "Why, you're a real sport!" chuckled Silence. "You're a reckless chap, aren't you! If I should say a hundred dollars, you'd wilt in your boots." Ephraim's blood was boiling now.
"Yeou hain't got no business, nevertheless, to be roamin' araound outside o' picket; but seein' as it's yeou, I reckon yeou may trot along!" I offered to exchange my information for a biscuit and a drop of coffee, for I was wellnigh worn out; while one of the privates produced a canteen more wholesome than cleanly, another gave me a lump of fat pork and a piece of corn bread.
Ketch me lett'n' go!" was Abel's emphatic answer. "Yeou lay still, 'n' wait t'll that man comes tew." He kept the hay-fork ready for action at the slightest sign of resistance. Mr. Bernard, in the mean time, had been getting, first his senses, and then some Jew of his scattered wits, a little together. "What is it?" he said. "Who 'a hurt? What's happened?"
"Is it a trance you're in, Oi dunno?" cried Mulloy, as he gave Gallup a sharp nudge. "Wake up, me bhoy!" "Eh?" grunted Gallup, looking up and starting to his feet. "Why, hanged if I noticed yer when yeou come in!" "Your mind seemed to be far away," observed Merry. "You actually looked troubled and careworn. What's the matter, Eph?"
Bewlah larfed, but I didn't mind her doin' on't, for she sez, sez she, real sort o' cunnin', "'Poor Hiram! they didn't use yeou waal. Yeou ought to hev tried some er the poor an' humly girls; they'd a been glad an' grateful fer such a sweetheart as yeou be.
"A man is foolish to waste his time in argument with such chaps as you," said Greg, with a shrug of his shoulders. "Are you on this train?" When they replied that they were, he explained that he was there to take the same train. Within the station he secured his battered old suit case, which he had left there. "Have yeou a seat?" asked Gallup.
He gazed at the other fellow with eyes that almost popped from his head. "Ain't yeou glad to see me?" came from the fellow in rags, and his voice took on a hurt tone. "Plum! Is it is it really you?" faltered Jack. "Sure ez yeou air born it's me," was the answer from Plum Plucky. "But I thought you were dead I was sure you were dead. Why, I I buried your bones!"
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