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Updated: June 23, 2025
"'Now, den, sez Brer Fox, 'we er gone, sho, sezee. "'W'at we gwine do? sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. "'I'll git in de maul, sez Brer Fox, 'en you'll jump in de gall, sezee. Nobody don't say nuthin'. Den de man say he'll cut 'er open en see, en den he whirl in, en twan't no time 'fo' he had 'er intruls spread out. Brer Rabbit, he crope out'n de gall, en say, sezee: "'Mister Man! Oh, Mister Man!
The clouds settle right down onto the mast-head, black and thick, like the settlin's of an ink-bottle; the lightnin' hisses an' cuts fore and aft; and corposants come flightin' down onto the boom or the top, gret balls o' light; and the wind roars louder than the seas; and the rain comes down in spouts, it don't fall fur enough to drop; you'd think heaven and earth was come together, with hell betwixt 'em; and then it'll all clear up as quiet and calm as a Simsbury Sunday; and you wouldn't know it could be squally, if 'twan't for the sail that you hadn't had a chance to furl was drove to ribbons, and here an' there a stout spar snapped like a cornstalk, or the bulwarks stove by a heavy sea.
The next morning, when I returned from my inspection, I found the rector and Philip had decamped with two of our choice horses, and that my uncle and aunt had commanded the barge, and gone to Mr. Lloyd's. I sent for Scipio. "Fore de Lawd, Marse Richard," he wailed, "'twan't Scipio's fault. Marse Grafton is dry fambly!" This was Scipio's strongest argument.
She smiled, but she made no comment on this characteristic bit of speculation. Instead she asked: "Mr. Winslow, are you very busy this morning? Is your work too important to spare me just a few minutes?" Jed looked surprised; he smiled his one-sided smile. "No, ma'am," he drawled. "I've been pretty busy but 'twan't about anything important.
"No-o, I thought 'twould help that. But that wan't the whole reason, Sam." "Reason for what? What do you mean?" "I mean that wan't my whole reason for tellin' Leander he'd better volunteer, better go up to Boston and enlist, same as he did. That was part, but 'twan't all." Captain Sam's eyes and mouth opened. He stared at the speaker in amazement. "You told him to volunteer?" he repeated.
"There wan't no livin' with Mis' Hadley then, she was that proud; an' when he brought home his first picture, they say she never went ter bed at all that night, but jest set gloatin' over it till the sun came in an' made her kerosene lamp look as silly as she did when she saw 'twas mornin'. There was one thing that plagued her, though: 'twan't painted that picture.
You have met him, you say?" "Yes, ma'am," said Shadrach, "I've met him. 'Twan't much more'n that he just came into our store down home, that's all. But I did meet him and I must say I thought he was a real likely young feller." "I am glad you thought so. So do I. Has Mary written you of his calls here?" "Oh, yes, ma'am, she's written.
Things would go tah rack an' ruin heah, wid yo' ma allus ailin', an' you so no-'count, ef 'twan't fur ole Dilsey tah keep dese lazy niggahs frum gwinetah sleep en thah tracks.
You must try and forget the horrors of that night." "Don't yer know, Miss Mollie, dat dem Ku Kluckers ain't a-gwine ter let de one ez done dat lib roun' h'yer, ner ennywhar else dat dey can come at 'em, world widout end?" "Well, I thought you were sure that Nimbus was safe?" "Nimbus?" said the woman in surprise, uncovering her face and looking up. "Nimbus? 'Twan't him, Miss Mollie, 'twan't him.
'Twan't a pretty performance to look at, but it beat the world for taking the craving for fancy cooking out of a man. "Well, when I got to Singapore I was nothing but skin and bone, and considerable of the skin had been knocked off by the marline-spike and the mate's boots.
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