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Any wide-awake widder 'oman dat kin get a widder man whar he can't he'p but see her move round at her work for two days hand-runnin', an' can't mesmerize him so's he'll ax her to marry him Um hm! I'd ondertake ter do dat, even ef I warn't no cook; but wid seasonin's an' flavors to he'p me Law, chile! dey warn't no yearthly 'scape fur dem chillen!

Tell a body, do so many officer in 'e army, one nebber know all he name." "'Mericans can't hab 'em. Too poor for dat. Briggerdeer great gentleum, and wear a red coat. Ole time, see 'em in hundreds, come to visit Masser, and Missus, and play wid Masser Bob. Oh! no rebbleushun in dem days; but ebbery body know he own business, and do it, too."

"It'll be a mighty long time afore she puts on dem tings agin," she said, with a doubtful shake of her large, round head. Then she went back to the chair and picked up Polly's sandals, and examined the bead-work with a great deal of interest. "Lawdy, lawdy!" she cried, as she compared the size of the sandals to that of her own rough, worn shoes.

"I have apartments in many cities. I lock dem up, and do not carry mosh logish." I then remembered that his apartment at Baden, where I first met him, was bare, and had no bed in it. "There is, then, a sleeping room beyond?" "This is the sleeping room." "If you sleep on these two old chairs you have a rickety couch; if on the floor, a dusty one."

"Ef on'y dem yeh heathen don't took to butcherin'!" the cook muttered. The prophetic words were scarcely spoken when what we most feared came to pass.

"She's down by de mouth ob de creek, sah, an' she sure am a mighty good boat. We could load her up right here, an' I'd be one ob de niggers fer ter take dem ladies down ribber. I'se a free boy, an' nobody care whar I done go."

I commenced reluctantly to take off my shirt, at the same time pleading with Gilbert, who paid no attention to my prayer, but said, "Jake, I is gwine to wip you to-day as I did dem toder boys." Having satisfied myself that no mercy was to be found with Gilbert, I drew my shirt off and threw it over his head, and bounded forward on a run in the direction of the sound of the carpenters.

"It's all black, and no light nowhere; and I'm sore poor pa and Teddy and all of dem are lost!"

"'Yeas, yeas, missus; but, you see, I be fool on dat. You see, Massa Peter come back wid a so' foot, shot up putty bad. I got fool on dat dream. You see, Marfa allers tells me 'bout de dreams. So you see, I jes' thought I could tell, too. I miss it. Yeas, I miss him dat time. Marfa, she know, she do. She tell you all 'bout dem when she comed.

On every side was stone stone walls stone steps. It was like going down into some vast stretch of catacombs. "Say, will we ever get to the bottom?" asked Ned, when they had counted several hundred steps. "Maybe this goes down to the middle of the earth." "Well, ef it do I'm gwine right along!" called Eradicate. "I's gwine t' hab one ob dem gold images or bust!" "And I'm with you!" cried Tom.