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One morning Aunt Martha came running into the parlor where the family were sitting, and with much anxiety cried out: "'Marsa Lyon and Marsa Gen'l, come to Marsa Peter, quick; 'cause he bleed to deff if you not hurry. "We ran to him quickly. He was bleeding profusely, holding his head over the edge of the bed. He could only speak in a gurgling whisper.
"Yes, sar!" he was saying, as if arguing with somebody. "Yes, sar, by rights dat nigger gal oughter be beat mos' ter deff, she clean bodder de life out'n me, an' marster, he jes' oughter kill dat nigger.
"Head all hot den, Mass' George; got cold now." "Why, you lazy, cunning young rascal!" I cried; "if you don't pick that head up directly, and bring it along!" "Ugh!" ejaculated Pomp, with a shudder; "um so dreffel ugly, Pomp frighten to deff." I could not help laughing heartily at his faces, and the excuses he kept inventing, and he went on
"I thought you were preaching, Uncle Bob," said the Colonel, to whom the elderly Negro had applied for a job. "Yessah, Ah wuz," replied Uncle; "but Ah guess Ah ain't smaht enough to expound de Scriptures. Ah almost stahved to deff tryin' to explain de true meanin' uv de line what says 'De Gospel am free, Dem fool niggahs thought dat it meant dat Ah wuzn't to git no salary."
Beats all what women won't do for a man if they love him, no matter how big a skunk he is. Miss Dory died for one, an' Mandy Ann is slavin' herself to deff for one. I'se mighty glad I'se not a woman.
'Who be you? said Marm Blake, 'for I can't see you. 'A stranger, said I. 'Beck! says she, speakin' to the black heifer in the corner, 'Beck! says she agin, raisin' her voice, 'I believe you are as deff as a post, get up this minit and stir the coals, till I see the man. Arter the coals were stirred into a blaze, the old lady surveyed me from head to foot, then she axed me my name, and where I came from, where I was a-goin', and what my business was.
A stranger, said I. Beck, says she, speakin to the black heifer in the corner, Beck, says she agin, raisin her voice, I believe you are as deff as a post, get up this minit and stir the coals, till I see the man. Arter the coals were stirred into a blaze, the old lady surveyed me from head to foot, then she axed me my name, and where I came from, where I was agoin, and what my business was.
The smoothness of his skin turned an ashen colour and the whites of his eyes were rolling. He pushed back away from the doorway and stared at Joe. Gradually the terror began to fade out of his face and it was superseded by a sickly grin. Joe was watching him closely. "You plum skeered me to deff," he finally managed to say, his breath coming fast and thick.
"Well now," he would say, "Old Clay, I guess you took your time a-goin' up that 'ere hill 'spose we progress now. Go along, you old sculpin, and turn out your toes. I reckon you are as deff as a shad, do you hear there? Go ahead! Old Clay. There now," he'd say, "Squire ain't that dreadful pretty? There's action.
"Here Aunt Martha had to come in; we could not stop her. She said: "'Yes, sah; dat gal takes kear of Marsa Henry. If it not done been for her he done starved to deff, he would. Dem Sesh, dey be affer dis fambly. Dey done kill mos' all, and am still affer you. I tells you, dey am; I knows dem, I do. Marsa Henry, you mus' stay home wid de folks, you mus'. "At this my wife became much distressed.
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