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But the hostile look on the porter's face scared him, and he could not help a tremor that crept into his voice as he made his reply. "Whar's yer ticket?" snarled the negro. Reaching into his pocket, Bob drew forth the long strip of paper and presented it to the officious porter. "The ticket's all right," grunted the man. "Now, whar's youah parlah cyar ticket?" "My what?" asked Bob.
The stranger was a somewhat short and thick-set, but bright and active-looking boy, with a pair of very keen, greenish-gray eyes. But, after all, the first word he spoke to poor Dick was, "Hullo, clothes! Where are you going with all that boy?" "I knowed it, I knowed it!" groaned Dick. But he answered as sharply as he knew how, "I's goin' a-fishin'. Any ob youah business?"
And now as you-all take youah leave, I propose that we rise and give three cheers fo' Lattimore and prosperity." The cheers were given thunderously, and the crowd bustled out, filling the street. "Well, wouldn't that jar you!" said Jim. "This is a case of 'Gaze first upon this picture, then on that' sure enough, isn't it, Al?"
"I 'ain't got time foh that, Mistah Maxwell," he said, respectfully. "I read one, and I regret to say, suh, that it was too much. I have looked into othe's, but I go no fu'thah. I have tried to open to you gentlemen the great wo'ks I have discove'ed, an' youah reply is that you-all have read them, suh. I am surprised. Do you give one glance at a picture an' nevah look again?
"None ob youah business. I's 'tendin' to mine. Put dat back, now, will you?" Dick had promptly retreated against the fence, in his surprise and vexation, and was defending himself and his cargo vigorously, but he was sadly outnumbered.
'Ain't you got brains enough in youah haid to see that I've got to the end of mah rope?" Maxwell was a clever man, educated in the world's university. He knew truth when he met it, and he knew human nature. "Sit down," he said, quietly, "and tell me about it. I'm sorry I spoke as I did, but you must admit that your proposition was rather startling."
There had been one quarter before now in his hand there were five shiny quarters! It was a wonderful trick! But now the strange man, Dr. Philemon Pipp, was speaking again. "Now that you all understand the trick," he declared, "I will pefohm another foh youah entahtainment." The funny thing about it was that no one understood it at all except the Toyman.
"Such a dolling little appil blossom," said the wife of a local M.P., who brushed up her etiquette and English once a year at Ottawa. "Does she always laugh so sweetly, and gobble you up with those great big gray eyes of her, when you are togetheah at home, Mr. McDonald? If so, I should think youah pooah brothah would feel himself terrible de trop." He laughed lightly. "Yes, Mrs.
Smiling inwardly with pleasure as he again lived the past, the old Negro swayed and recited: Black Eye Susie, you look so fine, Black Eye Susie, ah think youah mine. A wondahful time we're having now, Oh, Black Eye Susie, ah believe that youah mine.
"Sleep, ma baby, why you lie so col', so col'? Loo-la, Loo-la, do Massa want you for His fol'? But, baby, honey, don' you know youah mammy's ol' An' want you, want you, oh, she want you jes' to hol'." A long silence followed the song. The girl laid her guitar down and sat quietly looking straight before her, while Barney played the refrain over and over.
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