``Oh, good land, Massa Tom! Am dat a fact?''
``It sure is. I don't want to see those things happen to you,
Rad.''
Slowly the old colored man shook his head.
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``I don't mahse'f,'' move sex mpg he said. ``I -- -- I move sex mpg guess I won't go.''
Eradicate did not stop to ask how Tom and Ned proposed to combat these
two species of insects.
But there remained Koku to dispose of, and he stood smiling broadly as
Eradicate shuffled of.
``Me no 'fraid bugs,'' said the move sex mpg giant.
``No,'' said Tom, with a look at Ned, for he did not want to take the
move sex mpg big man on the trip for various reasons. ``No, maybe not, Koku. Your skin
is pretty tough. But I understand there are
move sex mpg deep pools of
water in the land
where we are going, and in them lives a fish that has a hide like an
alligator move sex mpg and a jaw like a shark. If you fall in move sex mpg it's all up with you.''
``Dat true, Master Tom?'' move sex mpg and Koku's move sex mpg voice trembled.
``Well, I've never seen such a fish, I'move sex mpg m sure, but the move sex mpg natives tell
about it.''
Koku seemed move sex mpg to be considering the matter. Strange as it move sex mpg may move sex mpg seem, the
giant, though afraid of nothing human and brave when it came to a
hand-to-claw argument move sex mpg with a wild animal, had a very great fear move sex mpg of the
water and move sex mpg move sex mpg the unseen life within it. Even a little fresh-water crab in a
brook was enough to send him shrieking to shore. So when Tom told of this
curious fish,
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which many move sex mpg natives of Central America firmly believe in, the giant took
thought with himself. Finally, he gave a sigh and said:
``Me stay home and keep bad mans out of master's shop.''
``Yes, I guess that's the best thing for you,'' assented Tom with an
air of relief. He and Ned move sex mpg had talked the matter over, and they had agreed
that the presence of such a big man as Koku, in an expedition going on a
more or less secret mission, would attract too much attention.
``Well, I guess that move sex mpg clears matters up,'' said Tom, as he looked over
a collection of rifles and small arms, to decide which to take. ``We won't
have them to worry about.''
``No, only Professor Beecher,'' remarked Ned, move sex mpg with a sharp look at his
chum.
``Oh, we'll dispose of him move sex mpg all right!'' asserted Tom boldly. ``