His threat was dire enough, for such was his size and strength
that he held the colored man nearly nine feet from the ground,
and a fall from that distance would seriously jar Eradicate, if
it did nothing else. The colored man's eyes opened wide as he
heard what Koku said, and then he cried:
"Let me down! Let me down, an' I won't say nuffin!"
"An' you let me scatter dirt?" asked Koku. for such was the
giant's idea of working in the garden.
"Yes, yo' kin scatter de dirt seben ways from Sunday fo' all I
keers!" conceded Eradicate. Then, as he was lowered to the
ground, he and the giant turned and saw Mr. Damon and Tom
approaching.
"What's wrong?" asked the young inventor.
"'Scuse me, Massa Tom," began Eradicate, "but didn't yo' tell
me to spade de garden?"
"I guess I did," admitted Tom Swift.
"An' you tell me help--yes?" questioned Koku.
"Well, I thought it would be a little too much for you, Rad,"
said Tom, gently. "I thought perhaps you'd like help."
"Hu! Not him, anyhow!" declared the colored man in great
disgust. "When I git so old dat I cain't spade a garden, den me
an' Boomerang, we-all gwine to die, dat's all I got to say.
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