What did the women do ?" "Dey turned an' haked it, an' hollered as loud as dey cud squawk." Wade and the captain began to laugh.
"A black man with a black dog was too much for them!" exclaimed Raed.
"Well, what next, Palmleaf ?" "Dey run'd; an' twan't a minit 'fore a whole gang ob de men cum runnin' up, wid dere picked bone tings in dere han's." "That'll do," said Kit.

"We know the rest." "What became of my musket ?" I asked.
"I dunno.

I tink I mus' ha' dropped it." "It does look like that," Kit remarked.
"See here, you 'Fifteenth Amendment'!" exclaimed the captain, turning to him: "you had better stay aboard in future." "I tink so too, sar," said Palmleaf.
The crowd on the shore had grown larger.

There could not have been much less than two hundred of them, we thought.

The women and children had come.