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"Dere's no use risk it if you 'ain't got to, dat's fac'. I don' lost no boats yet, but sometam's I bus' 'em up pretty bad." He grinned cheerily. "Dese new-comer get scare' easy an' forget to row, den dey say 'Poleon she's bum pilot. You seen de canon yet?" When Pierce shook his head the speaker turned back and led the way out to the rim. It was an impressive spectacle that Phillips beheld.
Ain't dot a good vun? And all I pay for it vas tventy tollars." The detective loosened the folds, shook out the flounce, held it up to the light, and ran his thumb through the tear in the mesh. "Of course dere's a hole I buy him cheaper for dot hole my little Beesving like it better for dot. If it vas new she vouldn't have it." Pickert was now caressing the soft lace, his satisfaction complete.
I call Missy S'wanee, an' she come, cool an' lady-like, an' not a bit afeard, an' he take off his hat to her, an' say: "'Madam, I'se sorry all dis yer happen 'bout yer house, but I'se could not help it. Dere's a good many woun'ed, an' our surgeon is gwine ter treat all alike. I'se tole dat yer had coffee a-bilin' an' supper was ready.
I verked ever since I vas a liddle boy, and if I eat too much now, maybe it's because I didn't get enough ven I vas liddle. And maybe I got more money dan vot I got a right to, but I know dis I ain't never had enough to do half vot I vant to! But dere's plenty fellers got ten times vot I got, and never done a stroke o' vork fer it. Dey're de vuns y'oughter git after!"
"This is a black business, Silver Tongue," I said; though, to be exact, I called him Leoalio, which means the same thing in native. "Plack!" he exclaimed. "It's horrible! It's disgusting! They have been cutting off beople's heads!" "Fourteen by one count," I said; "twenty-two by another." "Gabtain," said he with a look of extraordinary gravity, "dere's worse nor that!" "Worse?" I said.
She was raised up by Robberts, who came running to her assistance, and, on being questioned as to the cause of her outcries, replied: "Dere's a strange cat in de house wild cat too, I raly b'lieve;" and spying Tom at that moment beneath the table, she made another dash at him for a renewal of hostilities. "Why that's Tom," exclaimed Robberts; "don't you know your own cat?"
How old's she, master?" "Fifty years and more," said I. "Dere's nuffin' pertickler in dat," cried Cromwell. "I knows a wessel dat am a hundred an' four year old, s'elp me as I stand." "I don't know how the whaler's heading," said I, "but this schooner's a canoe if we aren't dropping her!" Indeed she was scarce visible astern, a mere windy flicker hovering upon the pale flashings of the foam.
"She's took first prize every year for ever so long. She's a wonderful driver." "Dere's Lorry!" screamed Joey, pointing to a little tousled black head peeping from between Malcolm Cameron and his sister, just a little in advance. "Elsie's awful good to her," said Hannah gratefully. "Her an' Arabella Winters jist makes a pet o' that child.
"It looks worse than I thought." "'Tain't so bad," said Sam cheerfully. "Guess it's watertight." He placed a speculative eye at the dusty window pane he had wiped off with his coat sleeve. "Looks dry inside. 'Twould be a heap better'n sleepin' on de pavement fer some. Dat dere fire hole would take in a big lot o' wood an' I guess dere's a plenty round de place without robbin' de woods none."
I put it to you whether you cannot trust yourself more safely in the hands of white gentlemen, who are your true friends, than in the hands of ignorant and purchasable negroes and unscrupulous white scoundrels?" "Dere's no doubt about it, suh," assented Jerry, with a vehemence proportioned to his desire to get back into favor. "I ain' gwine ter have nothin' ter do wid de 'lection, suh!
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