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Dis am a pretty fix los', los' up heah, in de midst of wolves an' painters!" Joe, from behind his rock, wailed mournfully in startling imitation of a panther's call. The darkey almost fell prone in his fright. "Name o' goodness!" he exclaimed. "Wha' dat? Oh oh dere's a painter, now!" Joe called again, more mournfully, more ominously than before. Neb's fright became a trembling panic.
Vhen he go in de post-office she alvays smile awful sveet at Hugo, and dere's dem as say she vere pretty mad because he don't never pay no attention. Vhat he care for de red-headed t'ing?" "She looks after all the mail, doesn't she?" asked the doctor. "Yes, McGurn he too busy vid oder t'ings. De gal tends to all de letters an' papers." This seemed an indication worth following.
Sence de creek's been up I haint been able to git across, and dere's piles o' letters to go ober to-day." "It must make it rather bad for the company when the creek rises in this way," said Harry. "Dat's so," answered Miles. "Dey gits in a heap o' trubble when dey can't send dere letters and git 'em. Though 'taint so many letters dey sends as telegraphs."
He pushed back the opposite door, and attempted to pass. "Say, mister, dere's a big bug on your collar!" exclaimed the urchin, pointing to Richard's neck. Now, as I'm sure every one knows, to merely have such a thing mentioned is to feel the insect in question. Such was the case with Richard, and still holding the door with one hand he put the other up to his neck.
The walk was a silent one, for Rouletta was in a state bordering upon collapse; gradually she regained control of herself and stumbled along beside him. "They're three to one," she said, finally. "Oh, 'Poleon! They'll swear it on him. The Police are strict; they'll give him five years. I heard the colonel say so." "Dere's been good deal of short-weighin', but " Doret shook his head.
I'se a Republican because I belebe in people bein' free, wedder dey is white or black, but I ain't one ob dem kin' ob Republicans dat look on white folks as inemies. Wot we do widout dem, an' wat dey do widout us? All talk ob one side agin de toder is fool talk. Ef dere's any prosperity in dis lan' we got ter pull tergedder.
Dere's one thing sho', dey're gwine ter git after de niggers some way er 'nuther, an' w'en dey does, whar is Jerry gwine ter be? Dat's de mos' impo'tantes' question.
Dere's a wet ring-mark on de porch where de freezer was, 'count of de salty water leakin' out. An' dat wet ring-mark am all dat's left ob de cream, dar now!" and Dinah, standing with her hands on her hips, looked at the startled children, whose mouths were just ready for the ice cream. "Well, I'm going to have a look, anyhow," said Bert. "Come on, Charley.
The light was supplied ostensibly by two tallow dips, but in reality by the glowing wood embers of the great open stove bricked into one side of the wall. Five or six excited negroes were grouped in a circle about a woman with a yellow turban on her head, who was rocking back and forth and shouting at intervals: "Oh-h, dere's sperrits in de air! I can smell um. I can smell um."
Yet something pleased in it all, and Mrs. "No, ma'am," the janitor admitted; "but dere's grates in most o' de rooms, and dere's furnace heat in de halls." "That's true," she admitted, and, having placed her family in the apartments, it was hard to get them out again. "Could we manage?" she referred to her husband.
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