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Dinah sat down near the lunch basket. "Don't you want to walk around a bit?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey. "No'm," answered the fat cook. "I ain't gwine t' leab dish yeah basket ob victuals until dey's eaten. Dey ain't no ghostests, nor no dogs, gwine t' git nothin' when I'se heah! No'm!" and Dinah slipped her fat arm in through the handle of the basket. "Let's look for chestnuts!" cried Freddie.
"No, gal," she answered, "I can't leab me old cabin; I been libbing dar dese twelve years, and I got so used to it dat I can't sleep out ob it." "Den I will take care ob de chile for you," said Elsy, "and you can come ebery now and den and see him." "Dat's so," she, replied. "But tell me, gal," she continued, "whar you come from?" "I come from New Orleans, Auntie," replied Elsy.
I means I 's gwine to leab dis place." "Now look here, Rose," protested the lawyer, with dignity, "Peter Siner occupies almost a fiduciary relation to me." The old negress stared with a slack jaw. "A relation o' yo's!" The lawyer hesitated some seconds, looking at the hag.
You can eat um or leab um alone, Miss Caterpillar!" said little Pitapat, firmly. Capitola laughed. "Patty" she said, "you are worthy to be called my waiting maid!" "And Lors knows, Miss Caterpillar, if it was de wittels you was a-frettin' arter, you ought to a-told me before! Lors knows dere's wittels enough!"
An Missy Mara look 'im in de eyes an say, you dat's you, Marse Clancy may be dead, or you may be dyin, an dat she can't leab you an she won leab you. She got de grit ob true lub, an dere'll neber be any runin away in her heart. Wot you an Marse Bodine gwine ter do 'bout sich lub as dat? 'Fo' de Lawd my honey lam' die ef you an Marse Bodine 'sist on bein so orful hon'ble.
I went dar, as she tole me, an' she got up de biggest dinnah, wid more chicken-fixin's an' pie an' cake dan ebber I see; but dat arternoon I was taken down ag'in wid de rheumatiz couldn't do no work for more'n six munfs, an' don't reckon I'll be much use any more, nohow. Vina's tuk car' ob me more'n two year now. She's had a sight ob beaux, but she's allus tole 'em she couldn't leab her ole fader.
"O let's see him," cried Nan, with lively interest. "You all is gwine to leab him alone " began the mountain, when Mandy turned ponderously in her direction. "Will you, Martha Jane Jenkins, please kindly rec'lect dat you is 'sociatin' wid quality now, an' take a good care how you talk, though sholy it may be de fus time dat you has ebber been in good sassity "
Howeber, dey give me someting to eat, and den take me down into hold of ship and tell me to go to sleep on some sacks of sugar, and throw some empty sacks ober me to cover me. Den dey close up hatch and leab me alone. "When I come on deck de land was gone and de vessel sailing along. I speak to no one, for I only understand little Spanish, and dese people not speak dat.
"Dat debbel Bill Moody, an' all him gang in port watch, say dey is goin' murder capting and go way in long-boat, and leab us drown on board!" "But won't the other men prevent them?" asked Kate anxiously. "Dey can't, missy! Dey is down in main-hold; an' Moody shut um under hatchway so dat dey can't get up."
"Dat very good advice," said Mesty; "leab it to us": and Mesty walked away forward where the seamen were already in consultation. Jack also agreed to the prudence of this measure, and he perceived that the seamen, after a consultation with Mesty, were all arming themselves for resistance. The boats were now close on board, and English colours were hoisted at the gaff.
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