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"Here, what are you going to do?" I cried, as Pomp suddenly seized the three ducks and threw them into the fire. "That's not the way to roast ducks." "Pomp know dat, Mass' George," cried the boy, poking the birds about with a long, sharp-pointed stick, one of several which he had cut ready. "Pomp fader show um how to do ober dah." "Ober dah" evidently meant Africa.
"Why, Winnie," explained grandmamma, "she has run away from the farm, and here she is. Did you ever hear of such badness?" "Dah, now!" cried the negro, "didn't I tole you dat? I jest know dat chile wasn't gwine to stay nowhar 'dout her mar an' me. Po' chile, she look mity bad, 'deed she do." "Well, Winnie, never mind that now, she is only tired; let her eat her supper and go to bed."
I said, as the boy began to step about, cautiously penetrating once more into the forest, and stopping at last beside a moderate-sized pine, whose trunk was dotted with the stumps of dead branches, till about fifty feet from the ground, where it formed a pretty dense tuft, whose top was well in the sunlight. "Now we go up dah and hide, and rest a bit."
"Me an' Jamie wor pirta sack people, purty damned rough, too, but yer Ma was a piece ov fine linen frum th' day she walked down this road wi' yer Dah till this minit whin she's waitin' fur ye in the corner. Ivery Sunday I've gone in jist t' hai a crack wi' 'er an' d' ye know, bhoy, I got out o' that crack somethin' good fur th' week.
Haydon with a deep breath of relief. "That was a close shave, Jack. If she'd come straight at us instead of staying beside them for an instant, it would have been all up with us." "We could have had a chop at her with a dah," said Jack. Mr. Haydon shook his head grimly. "Not good enough to tackle a charging tigress," he said. "Might as well chop at a hurricane."
"You know my boy," suddenly said she. Frowenfeld looked at her. "Yass, sah. Dat boy w'at bring you de box of basilic lass Chrismus; dass my boy." She straightened her cakes on the tray and made some changes in their arrangement that possibly were important. "I learned to speak English in Fijinny. Bawn dah."
Then, turning to the boy, I whispered, "Now then; tell me once more, can you see the Indians?" "Yes, dah," he said, quietly. "You are sure?" "Yes, suah. Dey come now. Let Pomp shoot." "No, no; come with me," I said, catching hold of his arm. "Let's run to my father."
But the faithful negro tried to soothe and comfort her mistress, patting her shoulders as if she had been a baby, saying, "Dah! Dah! honey, don't take it so haad. Try to truss in de Lawd. He dun promus, an' he aint gwine back on nobody. I's dun sperience dat."
This could be done only by reaching the water and getting into it far from the point where they proposed to leave it. "Can you find the boat?" he asked Gabe, who chattered between his teeth. "I think so, sah." "Very well; we must find a small stream running into the pond, and then lead me to the boat." "Moccasin Brook is close yonder, sah. Shall I go dah?" "Yes, like lightning."
Sometimes a branch was too thick and strong: then the mahout drew his dah, gave three or four chops within the width of an inch the elephant waiting meantime when up would come the trunk again, and down went the timber. These Kachin dahs must be well tempered and have a fine edge, for our mahout cut filmy creepers hanging lightly as a hair, as easily as thick branches.
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