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She had b'long' ter a gemman over on Rockfish, w'at died, en whose 'state ha' ter be sol' fer ter pay his debts. En Mars Dugal' had be'n ter de oction, en w'en he seed dis gal a-cryin' en gwine on 'bout bein' sol' erway fum her ole mammy, Aun' Mahaly, Mars Dugal' bid 'em bofe in, en fotch 'em ober ter our plantation.
Old Jacob, he came by; I can see him now; it was just about Michaelmas time, a-getting dark after tea, though I hadn't had any, and he said to me, 'Hullo, missus, what are here for? and you've been a-cryin', for I had my face toward the sky and was looking at it. I never spoke. 'I know what's the matter with you, says he; 'do you think I don't?
"And she went and ast for it at the libery," Mrs. Bolton said, " several liberies and some ad it and it was bout, and some adn't it. And one of the liberies as ad it wouldn't let er ave it without a sovering: and she adn't one, and she came back a-cryin to me didn't you, Fanny? and I gave her a sovering."
I crope out, all a-tremblin', en crope aroun' en open de do' easy en slow, en poke my head in behine de chile, sof' en still, en all uv a sudden I says POW! jis' as loud as I could yell. SHE NEVER BUDGE! Oh, Huck, I bust out a-cryin' en grab her up in my arms, en say, 'Oh, de po' little thing!
She came back a-laughin' and a-jumpin' and as sassy as you please to them as was old before she was born." "Laughing!" said Girdlestone, raising his eyebrows. "She did not seem in a laughing mood this morning. You don't think she has gone out of her mind, do you?" "I don't know nought about that. There was Rebecca came down here a-cryin' 'cause she'd ordered her out of her room.
There's one of her scholars, a blacksmith he's above fifty year owd iv yo were to mention her name to him just now, he'd begin a-cryin', an' he'd ha' to walk eawt o'th heause afore he could sattle hissel'. Eh, hoo wur a fine woman; an' everything that hoo said wur so striking. Hoo writes to her scholars here, once a week; an' hoo wants 'em to write back to her, as mony on 'em as con do.
'Brice said, Miss, he saw Dudley a-cryin' and lookin' awful black, and says he to fayther, "'Tisn't in my line nohow, an' I can't;" and says fayther to he, "No one likes they soart o' things, but how can ye help it? The old boy's behind ye wi' his pitchfork, and ye canna stop." An' wi' that he bethought him o' Brice, and says he, "What be ye a-doin' there?
It's my belief as money's the curse o' this world; I never knew a trouble yet as didn't somehow come of it, either 'cause there was too little or else too much. And Dick's gone an' done this? And him with all his preachin' about rights and wrongs an' what not! Him as was always a-cryin' down the rich folks 'cause they hadn't no feelin' for the poor! What feeling's he had, I'd like to know?
One of them was saying: "Ol' Murdock's dawgs is a-cryin' and a-moanin' " And the other answered: "Oh, Lor'!" "An' ol' mammy, she's a-looking at the tea grounds in a cup." "What she say?" "She don' say nothing." He paused to give his words effect. "She got a rabbit foot." "Oh, Lor'!" The negro glanced fearfully about them. "Oh, Lor'!" he repeated.
One of 'em wuz a-cryin', I guess. His ma hadn't nothin' but love to give him, but you could see that she wuz a-givin' him that liberal. And Durant's "Spanish Singing Girl" rousted up a sight of admiration; she wuz very good-lookin' looked a good deal like my son's wife. There wuz a picter there of a boat in a storm. And on that boat is thrown a vivid ray of sunshine.
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