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Updated: June 23, 2025
We're goin' to have an extra ration of soap this mornin', and you fellows want to stir around lively and fix yerselves as if it was Sunday and ye was goin' to meetin'. The fust thing after breakfast all hands 'll turn out and p'leece ther camp." "What in the world does he mean by p'leecin' the camp?"
"Now, boys, whayer do you want yer bed?" then stopping at a thought he added, "Maybe ye didn't want me to help want to do everything yerselves?" "Ugh, bully good squaw. Keep it up wagh!" said his son and heir, as he calmly sat on a log and wore his most "Injun brave" expression of haughty approval. The father turned with an inquiring glance to Yan, who replied: "We're mighty glad of your help.
"Bajan, ninas, bajan! aprisa, aprisa!" The ladders rest upon the upper terraces. The girls cannot move them. Their late masters stand beside them, frowning and silent. "Lay holt thar!" cries Garey, again threatening with his piece; "lay holt, and help the gals down, or I'll fetch some o' yerselves a-tumblin' over!" "Lay holt! lay holt!" shouted several others in a breath.
Several times she made sorties from her doorstep, and seized more than one hulking fellow in the act of pummelling a youngster half his size, and shook him with a vigour which showed that constant exercise at the wash-tub had strengthened her arms. "Yer ought to be ashamed of yerselves, yer ought; a whole crowd of yer pitching into a handful o' boys."
Ye won't find no soft spot in me, nowhere. So, now, mind yerselves; for I don't show no mercy!" The women involuntarily drew in their breath, and the whole gang sat with downcast, dejected faces. Meanwhile, Simon turned on his heel, and marched up to the bar of the boat for a dram. "That's the way I begin with my niggers," he said, to a gentlemanly man, who had stood by him during his speech.
Go long to de spring and wash yerselves!" she said, seconding her exhortations by a slap, which resounded very formidably, but which seemed only to knock out so much more laugh from the young ones, as they tumbled precipitately over each other out of doors, where they fairly screamed with merriment.
"There air Tess now," muttered Letts and his two companions eyed a figure clad in rags, with flying copper-colored hair and bare dirty feet, which dropped down beside Longman without asking whether or no. "Cleanin' fish?" she queried. "Can't ye see?" growled Ben. "'Course I can," she answered; "just wondered if ye knowed yerselves."
"A-ah, but she's goin' t' give us the rain now, I dunno," Murphy predicted, staring up at the leaden clouds through his thick glasses. "Ye better git up some firewood, Mike, and make the camp snug agin foul weather. An' av' the both of ye ain't got yer place tight an' ready fer a sthorm, ye betther be stirrin' yerselves an' let the diggin' go fer a day.
Jessy Birt, the ferryman's little girl. She used to come up to the house every day for milk. He wondered for which flag she died. Ruth was teaching her to write. Ruth! Some old pain hurt him just then, nearer than even the blood of the old man or the girl crying to God from the ground. The sergeant mistook the look. "They'll be buried," he said, gruffly. "Ye brought it on yerselves."
"Pile up bedding and anything else that ye can find against the shutters, and keep yerselves well under cover. Don't throw away a shot; we'll want all our powder, I can tell ye. Quickly, now there aint no time to be lost." While some began carrying out his instructions below, others bounded upstairs and scattered themselves through the upper rooms.
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