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"Not zackly, Brer Rastus. I des tuck'n draw'd out. De members 'uz a blame sight too mutuel fer ter suit my doctrines." "How wuz dat, Brer Remus?" "Well, I tell you, Brer Rastus. W'en I went ter dat chu'ch, I went des ez umbill ez de nex' one.
"I've had no cause to," I answered; "you see, I am guilty of such things only when life assumes a grey monotony of hue and everything is a flat, dreary desolation. Do you understand, Imp?" "Not 'zackly but it sounds fine! Auntie Lisbeth," he said suddenly, as we paused at the Shrubbery gate, "don't you think my outlaw must be very, very fond of Uncle Dick to kiss his hand?"
Paul Bevan's just like you won't hear o' me touchin' a pipe, though he smokes himself like a wigwam wi' a greenwood fire!" Drake pondered a little before replying. "It would never do, you know," he said, at length, "for you boys to do 'zackly as we men does." "Why not?" demanded Tolly, developing an early bud of independent thought. "Why, 'cause it wouldn't" replied Drake.
Returning home from a three years' whaling voyage, with an empty hold, he was boarded by the pilot, an old acquaintance, who asked: "Waal, Cap'n Starbuck, how many bar'ls? Had a good v'yage?" "Not 'zackly," responded the Captain, "I haint got a bar'l of ile aboard, but I'll tell ye, I've had a mighty good sail."
No, I told him I didn't think I was. A hidgyis tho't flasht over me. It was of that onprincipled taler, and I said, "Has my clothin' a Welchy appearance?" "Not by no means," he answered, and then he said, "And what is your opinyin of the present crisis?" I said, "I don't zackly know. Have you got it very bad?" He replied, "Sir, it is sweepin' England like the Cymoon of the Desert!"
"You scoundrel!" cried Nigel, interrupting him, "do you really mean to tell me that you've brought me here as a hired servant?" "Well, not zackly," returned Moses, with solemn simplicity, "you needn't ax no wages unless you like." "But what if I don't want to take service?" demanded our hero, with a savage frown. "You kin go home agin," answered Moses, humbly.
"America is a large place, Shuffler," I answered. "Whereabouts is he over there, eh?" "Well, sir," said he, "I don't 'zackly knows were 'e his; but I dessay you'll come across him, sir. I'll give you the letter, at hany rate;" and he did too, although I combated his resolution.
But, ye see, the Head Man had pervided partic'lar for them kind, and he'd said in public, so 't everybody knowed about it, that he'd help folks like that, said he'd help 'em carry sech bundles hisself, or mebbe take 'em off, if it 'peared to be best. But this man disremembered that, or, worse still, p'r'aps he didn't 'zackly believe it.
"I suppose you're glad those days are over." "Not me. I was a heap better off den as I is now. Allus had sumpun to eat an a place to stay. No sich thing as gittin on a black list. Mighty hard on a pusson old as me not to git no rations an not have no reglar job." "How old are you?" "I doun know, zackly.
I will content myself with this lucky meetin'. But, I say, Nigel, lad," continued the old man, somewhat more seriously, "what if the Peak o' Ra Ra, what's-'is-name, should take to spoutin' like this one, an' you, as you say, livin' under it?" "Ha! das 'zackly what I say," interposed Moses. "Das what I oftin says to massa, but he nebber answers. He only smile.
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