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As soon as I am able I'll buy you of uncle and set you free. Then you can always work for me." "I doan wanter lebe you, young mistis, I sut'ny doan, ner der ole place whar I al'ays libed. But freedom sweet, young mistis, en I wanter feel I free befo' I die." "You shall, Uncle Lusthah. You have earned YOUR freedom, anyway." "Tut, tut, Louise, that's no way to talk," said her uncle testily.
The old man shook his head. "He's a kind o' set man, Andy is part Irish and part Scotch. He al'ays has anchored here and I reckon he al'ays will. I told him when I bought the land of him he was welcome to." "It was his land, then?" "Most on it I do' know as he wanted to sell reely, but I offered him more'n he could stan'. He's a little near Andy is." He chuckled. The artist laughed out.
'Ain't it nice to have her here? he kep' on sayin' over'n' over to Lyddy, an' she'd say 'Yes; but byme-by, when she found he was al'ays on hand to bring a pail o' water for 'Mandy, or to throw away her suds, or even help hang out the clo'es I see 'em hangin' out clo'es one day when I was goin' across their lot huckleberr'in', an' he did look like a great gump, an' so did she well, then, Lyddy Ann got to seemin' kind o' worried, an' she had more sick headaches than ever.
"Well," said Solon, "I thought I might as well look into the post-office an' see." "You thought so! You went a-purpose! An' you walked because you al'ays was half shackled about takin' horses out in bad goin'. You hand me over that letter!" Solon approached the table, a furtive twinkle in his blue eyes. He lifted the bag and opened it slowly. First, he took out a wedge-shaped package.
"Why, no!" said the man, wonderingly, "I suppose not; but I thought you boys would rather spend your money at the circus than to spend it in almost any other way." "Oh! I'd like to go well enough. I al'ays did like a circus, an' I wanted to go to this one, 'cause it's a big one; but they's sumpthin' else I want worse'n that, an' I'm a-tryin' to save up a little money for it."
'Bout next Saturday you take two sacks of flour and some pork an' potatoes around an' see that she is fixed up right. Da's al'ays doin' them things, too, on the quiet. So Ma goes with about $15.00 worth o' truck. The old witch was kinder 'stand off. She didn't say much.
Bold had finished getting breakfast, her husband came to the dairy in a state of amused excitement. "There, ye'll never think! I al'ays did say beasts was so sensible as Christians if ye took a bit of notice of 'em. I was a-goin' round stables jist now, and if I didn't find wold Blackbird in his own stall, jist same as ever.
He always said "your Bible," as if church members held a proprietary right. "That's it!" replied Miss Susan, brightening. "That's what I al'ays thought. Spill it all out, I say, an' make the world smell as sweet as honey. My! but I do have great projicks settin' here by the fire alone! Great projicks!" "Tell me some!
"Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week," suggested Mose. "You go long! I'll boun' you pulled 'em out; some o' your shines," said Aunt Chloe. "Well, it'll stand, if it only keeps jam up agin de wall!" said Mose. "Den Uncle Peter mus'n't sit in it, cause he al'ays hitches when he gets a singing. He hitched pretty nigh across de room, t' other night," said Pete.
"She knowed I never were for Abel takin' up wi' her, an' al'ays said so much as I could again the match." "Well, if you'll take my advice, Susan, you'll jist disapp'int her by givin' in straight off.
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