Part 14 (2/2)

”Well, if dat doesn't please you, I all in a shi+ver wid de cold My wood toe is al,” said Tom ”You know Jiers in his hand that was ground off in the mill, just an much as in tother I expect your experience is pretty much the same”

”Dat's a fact,” said Primus ”I can feel de foot and de toes just asis a sort o' kind o' shorter Now, Missa Gladding, you is a umption, can you splain dat?”

”Sartin,” said Tonorant to the presence of the negro; ”there's no great difficulty about that, though I rather think it takes

You see,” he added, recollecting as well as he could some Latin words he had heard used by the doctor, ”the narves of the rigduh the huated by the horrentibus oribus sort o' twist the aures arrectos into asinos, and that you see, to aas clear as one of elder Sillyway's sarht his breath at Toher also in Basset's esti fro on the subject, the General said--

”Larning is a great ting, and perhaps you is right and perhaps you isn't, but I hear anoder way to 'count for it”

”Out with it then,” cried Tom

”White folks,” said Pris, and colored pussons hab anoder way Now I hear a colored pussun, who cos, say it was de jumbee”

”The jumbee! What in natur's that!” inquired Basset, who had not before led in the conversation

”Now, none of your tricks, Priro of an intention to on like that he had palmed off; ”jumbee ain't Latin”

”nobody say it was,” returned Priuess de old fellow nebber hab much chance to study Latin He better 'quainted wid de shovel and de hoe Dat e, sperit”

”Colored people are curus folks,” ejaculated Basset

”I don't see fairly what you're driving at yet,” said Gladding

”Suppose jumbee does mean sperit, what then?”

”I mean dat de hand turn into a sperit Don't you see, Missa Basset,”

exclai at the constable, ”de sperit ob ?”

”Don't, don't, Pri back and nearly falling in his fright into the water ”What's the use of talking about sperits now? Corinned Primus, ”if you don't see de sperit, I feel hi all the pleasure of the sail by such kind o' nonsense,” urged Basset

”Don't you believe in sperits?” inquired the persevering General

”I tell ye I don't like to talk about such things now,” responded Basset