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"Now, look yar, don't you be frighted. It's a matter ob life an' deaf, you know, but I's your fri'nd! Jest you do zackly what I tells you." "Yes, Dinah," said Hester, alarmed, notwithstanding, by the earnestness and solemnity of her new friend, "what am I to do?" "You come yar, an' don't moob whateber I does to you. Dere, I's goin' to make you a nigger!"
"`Dey look, Massa, said he, after gazing at them for some moments, `dey look zackly like some varmint war a-vexin' ob 'em. "So did they, but no `varmint' appeared to be near their hole; and no animal, however thick in the skin, would have ventured into it, as we thought.
"Well, Massa," said he, "I don't know to a zact sartainty, for I was not dere when she was tooked ill, I was at de bank at de time, but I will take my davy it was hogs or dogs. I wont just zackly sartify which, because she was 'mazin' fond of both; but I will swear it was one or toder, and dat dey was cooked wid dere heads on dat I will stificate to till I die!"
"I done wish dat Massa Linkum come down here hisself," added the venerable colored person. "He can hardly spare the time to do that; his business is such that he cannot leave," replied the lieutenant, much amused at the simplicity of the negro. "Now tell me something more about this steamer in the bay. How big is she?" "I can't told you 'zackly, massa; she as big as de fort."
The last remark had reference to the enormous black paw which he held out. Nigel at once grasped it and shook it heartily. "I's bery fond ob a talk, sar," continued the negro, "so as you wants one, heabe ahead." Thus encouraged, our hero began by remarking that he seemed to be preparing for a trip. "Dat's zackly what I's a-doin', sar." "A long one?" "Well, dat depends on what you call short.
"But dere's a chorus," said Moses, looking round doubtfully. "What o' that? We'll do our best with it if it ain't too difficult." "Oh, it's not diffikilt, but if de lazy fellers among you sings de chorus dey'll be singin' lies, an' I don't 'zackly like to help men to tell lies. Howseber, here goes. It begins wid de chorus so's you may know it afore you has to sing it."
"What's the matter, Dinah?" shouted one of our boys to an active young wench, who was wending her way from the direction of the firing as rapidly as the frequent contact of an extensive hooped skirt with the undergrowth would allow. "Dunno zackly, massa!
"Why?" demanded Dick; "why should I behave like shteady ole buffer, when I don't feel shteady ole buffer? What do you want shpoil fun for? Tell you I shall do jus' zackly wharriplease. And, if you shay any more, I'll punch y' head!" "No, no," said his uncle, slightly alarmed at this intimation. "Come, you're not going to quarrel with me, I'm sure!" "All ri'," said Dick. "No; I won' quarrel.
Now, I can' say right 'zackly how things wuz during slavery 'cause its been a long time ago but we had cotton and corn fields and de hands plowed hard, picked cotton grabbled penders, gathered peas and done all the other hard work to be done on de plantations. I wuz not big 'nuff to do all of dem things but I seed plenty of it done.
"Better let him take Blue Wing," said Mr. Givens, addressing Bill Tilghman, who by virtue of priority of service and a natural affinity for draft stock was stable boss for the firm. It was Bill Tilghman who once had delivered himself of the sage remark that "A mule an' a nigger is 'zackly alike 'specially de mule." "Can't tek Blue Wing, Mist' Givens," answered Bill.
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