human
So, Mak, we shall save her yet,
gpt
Yis, massa. S'pose we go off dis hour and fight 'em?
human
Nay; that were somewhat too hasty a movement. `Slow but sure' must be our motto until night. Then we shall pounce upon our foes like a leopard on his prey. But ask the scout if that is all he has got to tell us.
gpt
Hims say, massa, dat hims find one leetle chile--one boy--when hims go away from de camp to come back to here.
human
A boy! repeated Jack;
gpt
In de woods, where hims was trow'd to die; so de scout take him up and bring him to here.
human
Ah, poor child! said I;