The father had not yet settled the question, so he commanded curtly: "Shut mout'."
Morning came, and with it Sobah's decision to remove to the mission town. Konah was in ecstasy. The people of the village gathered to see the visitors off. As a special mark of friendship Sobah got under one corner of a hammock, and toted it for some distance. Konah was drawn irresistibly to the side of the woman who had put a new warmth into her heart, and a new hope into her life. Lacking the ability to communicate in words, the woman put out her hand. The girl seized it eagerly, and trotted along contentedly by the side of the hammock. Encouraged by Konah's example, other little girls came up and took hold of the hand. Then the other hand was put out, and soon there were as many little girls attached as there were fingers on the hands. They trotted along, laughing and uttering frantic little ejaculations of joy. Whenever a tree crowded too close upon the path, they would loosen their hold, bound around the obstruction, and come back with a cry. So the procession moved on until the river was reached. There the little girls reluctantly halted. Konah stood watching, filled with an intense longing, as the path turned from the further bank of the river, and she saw the last hammock disappear around the bend. Her little heart fluttered with emotion, and her whole childish being reached out from that borderland of darkness, in a mute appeal to be taken along into that warmer, richer light toward which she felt herself drawn by an irresistible attraction. Thus she stood within the shadow, waiting for the coming of the sunshine.
[VOCABULARY]
| Aintee? | Is it not so? |
| Beef | animals. |
| Betty | better. |
| Bin deh | am or was there. |
| Blow | breathe. |
| Bug-a-bug | White Ants, Termes Bellicosus. |
| Bly | basket. |
| Bootoo | stoop, crouch. |
| Calabas' | gourd. |
| Cham | chew. |
| Conk | strike. |
| Cumpin | companion. |
| Deh | there. |
| Dem | they, them, their. |
| Den | they, their, them, then. |
| Do' | door. |
| Do yah | please. |
| Duh | do (auxiliary). |
| Grap | get up. |
| Greedy | begrudge. |
| Hangry | hungry, famine. |
| Hāse | hoist, raise. |
| Hebe | raise, throw. |
| He, heen, him | his. |
| Hō'se | house. |
| Hush yah | term of condolence. |
| Leelee | little. |
| Lek | like, as. |
| Lef | leave, left. |
| Mate | an associate—wife. |
| Nah | at, from, in, on, to. |
| Nar | is, are, was. |
| Net | night. |
| No mo' | nothing more, merely. |
| Oonah | you. |
| Pin | place, put down. |
| Pickin | pickaninny. |
| Pull | create, tell. |
| Ress | rice. |
| Sabbee | know. |
| San'-san' | sand. |
| Sebbeh | charm. |
| Shabe | divide. |
| Soso | merely. |
| Sotáy | until. |
| 'Tan' | stand. |
| Tay | until, for, a long time. |
| Tem | time. |
| 'Tick | tree, stick. |
| Wey | what, which, who, where, since. |
| Yase | ears. |
| Yi | eye. |
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Wa'm fiah, i.e. warm themselves by the fire.