Oh, there is no mistake, I'll take my oath of it; I see him, I did upon my soul.

It was the old gentleman hisself; he come there to cool hisself.

Oh, it was the devil, that's a fact.' "'It was nothin' but a fresh water eel,' sais I; 'I have seen thousands of 'em there; for the crevices of them rocks are chock full of 'em.
How can you come for to go, for to talk arter that fashion; you are a disgrace to our great nation, you great lummokin coward, you.

An American citizen is afeerd of nothin', but a bad spekilation, or bein' found oat.' "Well, that posed him, he seemed kinder bothered, and looked down.
"'An eel, eh! well, it mought be an eel,' sais be, 'that's a fact.
I didn't think of that; but then if it was, it was god-mother granny Eells, that promised I should renounce the devil and all his works, that took that shape, and come to keep me to my bargain.

She died fifty years ago, poor old soul, and never kept company with Indgians, or niggers, or any such trash.