“But you have done it?”
“Yass, seh, I has don hit.”
“And you could do it again, if necessary?”
“I speck so, seh—leas’wise, I kin try—dough I’se mons’us unsuttin, seh, mons’us unsuttin!”
“Uncertain of what—your shooting or your hitting?”
“My hittin’, seh.”
“Well, we’re all of us somewhat uncertain in that line. At least you know enough not to point the revolver toward yourself.” 204
“Hi!—I sut’n’y does! seh, I sut’n’y does!” said the negro, with a broad grin.
“There is a revolver, yonder, on the table,” said Croyden, indicating one of those they used on Greenberry Point. “It’s a self-cocker—you simply pull the trigger and the action does the rest. You understand?”
“Yass, seh, I onderstands,” said Moses.