Watch and Wait; or, The Young Fugitives
an, as soon as the sails of the Isabel had been furled,
off the hatch of the stow-hold.
ow how to
't know nossin a
and at the business first. We can make some coffee, boil
kin
vide the work between us. You shall be cook one week, and I will th
n a short time the fires were blazing in the two furnaces, the coffee and the potatoes were boiling upon one, and the other
various operations performed, that he was competent to do it himself, after acquiring a little expe
an was cooking the bacon, Cyd prepared it for the morning meal. They had every thing which could be found in any well-ordered
to set down to dat table. You'se a free nigger, now, Cyd, and jes as good as de best ob dem. Dar's de bread, dar's de pickles, dar's de butt
ky-light, as he proceeded to pass down
know what to do wid dese yere ting
placed upon the table, the effect called forth another rhapsody from Cyd. W
said he; "brea
exclaimed Cyd, suddenly looking as sober
t, C
be
do we want
to be sure," replied Cyd, diste
ut a bell," replied Dan, laughi
rdly have believed, from their appearance, that they were fugitives from slavery. All the talk about the chilly damps of the swamp, the perils and the hardships
Dan ventured to suggest to him that, as he was now seated at a gentleman's table, he should behave in a gentlemanly manner, and not eat bacon from his fingers, when a knife and f
as not strange, inasmuch as none of the chemical conditions, upon which good coffee is produced, had been compli
ed Lily, with a smile, which fu
hen the water," replied the
wat
, c
ve him a receipt for making good coffee, which
locker, and I couldn't think
pronounced satisfactory, especially by Cyd, whose plantation rations had not included
can go away and do what
table and wash the dis
going to
, Li
oat, but I think I can cook, and take care of the cabin, s
said Dan. "You have been a lady's-maid
ould not feel right to live like a lady here. I mean
and I wil
all dat, and a
ing, or I should
and while you are clearing off the table
at?" as
shall have a room
wning which was used to spread over the forward deck, he unrolled it, and proceeded to make his
awning to the size required, and then nailed it up as a partition between the forward and the after cabin. The space thus enclosed formed a state room, six feet long and three f
t namesake, when its mission on earth is nearly finished. The fugitives had come to the knowledge that they had slept none during the preceding night, and as the voyage was to be con
of us must turn
we bof
sleeps. We have been getting along so finely, th
. "Wha-wha-what you wa
come upon us while we
we're awake: what den? Who's a gw
shall not be taken
ee de nigger hunter, wid tree, four dozen bl
!" replied Dan, with energy, as he grasped on
g his eyes with astonishment. "Gwin
ill shoot man or dog tha
id when excited; but the idea was too big fo
oint, and you must
Massa Kun'l, if he come for
ong to myself now, and I will fig
sed Cyd. "Hossifus! Shoot Ma
to sleep. You may ha
s soon snoring in one of the forward bunks, while Dan took his place upon deck to guard