Excerpt: ...the dominie. The ladies kept watch by turns on the front of the house. Soon a voice was heard Pg 216 at the gate calling for Colonel Morton. The colonel answered the summons in person. It was Maguffin dismounted, and behind him came two men, honest farmers apparently, one of whom led the coloured man's horse, while the other held his fowling piece at the port, ready for action in Maguffin's rear. "Maguffin," said the colonel, sternly, "consideh youhself undeh ahhest, suh." "I doan need ter hab ter, sah; that's ...
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Excerpt: ...the dominie. The ladies kept watch by turns on the front of the house. Soon a voice was heard Pg 216 at the gate calling for Colonel Morton. The colonel answered the summons in person. It was Maguffin dismounted, and behind him came two men, honest farmers apparently, one of whom led the coloured man's horse, while the other held his fowling piece at the port, ready for action in Maguffin's rear. "Maguffin," said the colonel, sternly, "consideh youhself undeh ahhest, suh." "I doan need ter hab ter, sah; that's jess wot I is this bressid minit." "Good evening!" said the two farmers, amiably, and the colonel returned the salutation. "Good evening, gentlemen! but I feah you have made a mistake in ahhesting my sehvant." "When a naygur on a fine beast gallops down on two quiet folk, and orders them to go back, disperse, and surrinder, and them coming to see after the safety of their children and friends, the only one thing to do, if you have your guns along, is to arrest the naygur." "Do I undehstand, Maguffin, that you ordehed these wohthy people to go back, dispehse, and suhhendah without any wahhant?" "And presinted his pistil, too," continued the tall man, who had already spoken, and who was the coloured man's guard. "Have you no answah, Maguffin?" "I fought, Cunnell, I was ter patterole this heah road and repawt all the folkses I see on or off'n it." "Yes, repoht to me, as youh officeh, suh." "Oh, I fought yoh meant to repawt em wif a revolvah, sah." "I suppose, gentlemen, you will let my sehvant go, when I say I deplohe his foolish mistake, and apologize foh his insolence? "To be shure, sir," replied the guard; "give the man his horse, Annerew." Maguffin remounted, and, receiving more minute instructions from his master, returned to his patrol duty. "We're just coming in to help the Squire, and me to look after my childer, Tryphena and Tryphosa and Baby Rufus. When the Baby didn't come back this mornin', I said to his mother, 'Persis' says I, 'I...
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