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"But what of the Indian?" asked the captain, who was now at the scuttle with his hand on the door. "He am all right; and if you don't t'ink so, jes' come down and see for you'self." Dinah stepped out of the way, and her master lost no time in descending through the opening into the dark room below. "Fasten the door, for there may be more of them trying to enter."
Always when he felt ugliest Sanderson's drawl became more pronounced. His daughter, hearing now the slow, gentle voice, ran quickly round the counter and slipped an arm into that of her father. "This hyer is an unexpected pleasure, Mr. Weaver," he was saying. "It's been quite some time since I've seen you all in my house before, makin' you'self at home so pleasantly. It's ce'tainly an honor, seh."
"Oh! das a bery diff'rent t'ing, massa, an' I s'pose your mudder was right. Anyway it was lub what obercame Ben-Ahmed. You see, I put it to 'im bery tender like. `Massa, says I, `here I's bin wid you night an' day for six year, an' you's nebber say to me yet, "Peter de Great, go out for de day an' enjoy you'self."
Jim shook his head, and says: "Why, Mars Tom, if you knowed what chuckle-heads dem painters is, you'd wait a long time before you'd fetch one er DEM in to back up a fac'. I's gwine to tell you, den you kin see for you'self.
"O massa!" interrupted the negro, assuming the sympathetic gaze instantly, and speaking with intense feeling, "it's not in de stummik, am it?" He placed his hand gently on the region referred to. "No, Quash," Lawrence replied, with a laugh, "it is not the body at all that affects me; it is the mind." "Oh! is dat all?" said the negro, quite relieved. "Den you not need to boder you'self.
"Help you'self, Massa Nadgel, an' pass 'im forid." Without helping himself he passed it on to Van der Kemp, who drew his knife, sliced off a wing with a mass of breast, and returned the rest. "Always help yourself before passing the food in future," said the hermit; "we don't stand on ceremony here." Nigel at once fell in with their custom, tore off the remaining drumstick and began.
"Look a yere, Marse Marcy," said Julius, "Marse Jack done tol' me it plum time for me to stan' by to tell what's de troof, an' I ain't done nuffin else sence he tol' me dat. De Yankees did guv you dat hand, you done got one brother in de navy, an' dat's all I tol' dat rebel. I didn't say you a rebel you'self, kase dat would be a plum lie; an' all de black ones knows it."
"Nebber mind, you long-nosed white gorilla," was Zulu's civil rejoinder, "you kin git another pair when nixt we goes aboard de mission-ship. Till den you kin grin an enjoy you'self."
A slatternly negro woman dawdled down the street the following afternoon, and, encountering a friend of like description near the cottage which had been tenanted by Louie Gratz and his niece, paused for conversation. "Howdy, honey," she began, leaning restfully against the gate-post. "How's you ma?" "She right spry," returned the friend. "How you'self an' you good husban', Miz Mo'ton?" Mrs.
"You play by you'self an' me play by myself, an' we'll be together playin' by ourselves." He set off down a path, and meekly William followed. It must be jolly late almost tea-time. "I'm hungry," said Thomas suddenly. "Give me some brekfust." "I haven't got any," said William irritably. "Well, find some," persisted the infant. "I can't. There isn't any to find." "Well, buy some!"
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