Wah-wait till you can talk.

a bidarka, and one man who drives clumsily with a paddle!" Old Bask-Wah-Wan rose to her knees, trembling with weakness and eagerness, and gazed out over the sea.

" "It is Nam-Bok," old Bask-Wah-Wan repeated.

Nam-Bok is dead, O Bask-Wah-Wan, and the dead do not come back.

"La la, it is Nam-Bok," Bask-Wah-Wan croaked, peering up into his face.

"I bore thee, Nam-Bok, and I gave thee suck when thou wast little," Bask-Wah-Wan whimpered, drawing closer; "and shadow though thou be, or no shadow, I will give thee to eat now.

The women voiced a collective sigh of admiration, and old Bask-Wah-Wan ruffled the gay material and patted it and crooned in childish joy.

There was little talk while the feast went on, though many and curious were the glances stolen at the son of Bask-Wah-Wan.

And Bask-Wah-Wan sopped a particularly offensive chunk of salmon into the oil and passed it fondly and dripping to her son.

Bask-Wah-Wan scolded and struggled, but was blown down the beach for a score of feet and left breathless and stranded in a heap of driftwood.

" Bask-Wah-Wan, hobbling fearfully in advance, proud indeed, yet awed by her wonderful son, led him to her igloo and stowed him away among the greasy, ill-smelling furs.

" Bask-Wah-Wan limped to the froth-mark and cried, "I bless thee, Nam-Bok, for that thou remembered me.

"O Bask-Wah-Wan, mother that bore me!"

Wilt thou come, O Bask-Wah-Wan?" She debated a moment, while the bidarka drifted swiftly from her, then raised her voice to a quavering treble.

And through the nights the long "Wah-hoo-ha-a wah-hoo-ha-a!"

And through the nights the long "Wah-hoo-ha-a wah-hoo-ha-a!"

"Den de wah broke out, an' w'en it wuz ober de cullud folks wuz scattered.

Fer I knows I 'll fin' 'im some er dese days," she added softly, "er he 'll fin' me, an' den we 'll bofe be as happy in freedom as we wuz in de ole days befo' de wah."

Marster died befo' de Civil Wah.

Mah ole mutha died befo' de wah too.

Mah young marster went tuh de wah an come back.

When de Wah broke out we could heah li'l things bein said.

Later we learnt we wuz runnin fum de wah.

The words "by and by" were so often used by us in answer to their cau-wah, or "come here," that their meaning was perfectly understood and always satisfied the natives, since we made it a strict rule never to disappoint them of anything that was promised, an attention to which is of the utmost importance in communicating with savages.

I don jes recollek, but hit seem lak de called 'Gimme Dem Golden Slippahs', an a nother one hit wah 'Ise Goin To Heben