Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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— SNOWBALL. 43 # S' pose you don’ know how many inches dar’ is in dis yer » mortal frame, does yer, sojer ?” “No, I don’t; dew yew 2” replied the spy. “ Goll, don’t know what make ob. you, marse, you’s so _ cool all de time. Does yer tink I c’u’d fro’ you down ?” “ Can’t say, Tom; that’s your name, I believe.” cy “How de debble you know dat, eh? You talk to de spooks, same as ole missee,I s’pose. Tell you what, wich side youon? Don’t car’ wich side you’s on; I’s Minaieh, I be. 9 “Good for yew; so am I, Snowball.” “Dat so? Lick ’em like de debble, dat day, didn’t we. Sassy in dem, too, seein’ we has de bes’ right, to cum right up to our army dat way; but we lick’ em, dough, dat we did.” “ We did ?” in ‘ _“ Ya-as! we.,. Who set you up for a talker, you. Course ewe did it. Whoelse? Was you dar’ ?’” “ Yes, Snowball.” > ‘ “Like to been dar’, by hokey. Like ‘to fro’’em ober de moon, some day, dem ‘dam old Frencher fellers. But jus’ you look here. We’s got a full-blooded, rambunxious, thievin’, goose-stealin’, hose-ridin’, no-nigger Frencher, right in dat. ar’ very house, long o’ MissgMaggie and ole missee ; dar’ !” Eph ‘at once became interested in the came talk, “ How's that, Sam ?” “Tn dar’, I say, a mean, full-blooded—” “ Don’t go all over it again—talk sense. Who have you got in here, ’sides the wimmin?” “Tole you, two, free times; darn ole Frencher.” “Do you know his name ?” “ Debbil couldn't say his name. Cdéme here one udder . time, long ognudder darn ole Frencher, and stay little while. *Lation.of de ole woman, dat udder one was. His name Mo- ran.” aoe “ Aha!” “ Know him?” | “ Yes, seen him soméwhere. Is this one a young fellow, about as tall as—well, say as tall as Ronald Mannering, with long, straight black ha’r, and an Injin look abeout him gin- erally 1 e comiclooolks.con