human
I will not take you any farther, my good boy. I think you had better find some other way back, so that they may not see, from the house, that you have left me.
gpt
Oh, I do dat easily, mas'r, answered the lad;
human
First, tell me, I said,
gpt
Ole Billy Thornton's ole house,
human
But this is not, I think, the road that poor Hercules intended me to take?
gpt
Dar say he meant the waggon-road; but it is all de same, replied the lad.
human
Dey both come out close together, and dat ar gal jog her turn dis way. I see her, dough she were mighty quick.
gpt
Then I cannot miss my way to the old place,
human
Oh, dear, no, answered the boy;
gpt
The Great Dismal Swamp.