55/239 You better keep him." "Don't you try to make no fool of me, old man," cried the planter. "Oh, no! but you make a fool of yourself, ain't it ?" The dumbfounded Colonel stared; Charlie went on: "Yass! Belles Demoiselles is more wort' dan tree block like dis one. I pass by dare since two weeks. Oh, pritty Belles Demoiselles! De cane was wave in de wind, de garden smell like a bouquet, de white-cap was jump up and down on de river; seven _belles demoiselles_ was ridin' on horses. 'Pritty, pritty, pritty!' says old Charlie. |