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We know fr'm expeeryence in South Africa that th' charmin' bullet now undher discussion did much to change conditions in that enlightened an' juicy part iv his Majesty's domains. Th' darky that happened to stop wan was all th' betther f'r it. He retired fr'm labor an' give up his squalid an' bigamious life, he says.
"We will hope that her next visit will not be as dangerous as this one," said Mr, Fulton soberly. For several days Sylvia could think and talk only of her wanderings among the sand-hills, and of her first sight of the guard-boat. She began teaching Estralla on the very day of her return, and the little darky made rapid progress.
The door-bell rang. Holder found himself sitting erect, rigidly attentive, listening to the muffled sound of a woman's voice in the entry. A few moments later came a knock at the library door, and Sam entered. The old darky was plainly frightened. "It's Miss Kate, Marse Ho'ace, who you bin tryin' to fin'," he stammered.
Master, and fine lady, and obsequious, larking darky, and lumbering coach, and throng of pompous and gay life, have all disappeared. There was no room in this valley for the old institutions and for the iron track.
"My, no!" answered Sylvia, and before she could explain the generosity of Estralla's owner, the little darky was wailing and sobbing: "I knowed I'd be sold! I knowed it." "Keep still, Estralla! Mr. Waite says I may have you without paying him. Just as long as I live in his house he said you were to be my maid! Oh, Estralla!
Once an old darky, sent into the prison on some errand, was summoned to decide a hot dispute that was raging in the crowd to which I belonged. The champion of the pea side said, producing one of the objects of dispute: "Now, boys, keep still, till I put the question fairly. Now, uncle, what do they call that there?" The colored gentleman scrutinized the vegetable closely, and replied,
I returned in a short while with the lady, but found the boy's father and 'the old man' the darky preacher of the plantation there before us. The preacher was a venerable old negro, much bowed by years, and with thin wool as white as snow. When we entered he was bending over the dying boy, but shortly turning to my host, said, 'Massa, de blessed Lord am callin' for de chile, shall we pray?
The two colored men, Toots and Jumbo, together with the young Irish man of all work, who had also acted as a driver, took the turnouts round to the stables, where the three of them joined hands and did a crazy dance. "Bah golly, Jumbo, you big stiff," cried Toots, as he struck the huge darky a resounding blow on the back, "Ah'ze the happiest nigger in dis hull unumverse!
"Yaas, sir, Boss," grinned the darky. "Ah sure will shoot." "Now, boys, get going," commanded their captor. "Walk right up, too, for we're a long ways from home and I'm tired." "How did you happen back so soon?" queried Harry. "I thought you had gone to town to talk with Wyckoff about hanging us." "I done change my mind," answered Lopez. "I forgot something at the cabin and now hit's done burned.
That's a queer name for a darky, ain't it?" "That colored man up at Barry's place was named White," said Captain Jerry, "and he was black as your hat. Names don't count." "They say colored folks make good cooks, Jerry," slyly remarked Eri. "Maybe you'd better think it over." The unlucky victim of chance did not deign an answer, and the minutes crept slowly by.
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