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"I did not hear such names mentioned, but Henry spoke of a wounded nigger." "Ay, they're all a set of false rascals together," said Corrie. "Niggers ob dis here settlement is good mans, ebery von," said Poopy, promptly. "Hallo! Kickup, wot's wrong? I never heard ye say so much at one time since I came to this place." "Niggers is good peepils," reiterated the girl.
Suddenly the man wheeled about and came up to the fire, crying, fiercely, "Hagar, you have a God! I cannot find him. Pray to him, pray to him! Quick, woman! pray to him before it's too late!" "Lord help ye, Mas'r Dick!" said Hagar, "I's jes' prayin' fur de dear chile ebery minnit! Don't ye know it?
I nebber did see sich a d d bug he kick and he bite ebery ting what cum near him. Massa Will cotch him fuss, but had for to let him go 'gin mighty quick, I tell you den was de time he must ha' got de bite. I didn't like de look ob de bug mouff, myself, nohow, so I wouldn't take hold ob him wid my finger, but I cotch him wid a piece ob paper dat I found.
"Pull away, boys; pull away!" sung out Nub. "It's a long lane dat has no turning. We better off dan on de raft, which de sea would have washed over ebery moment. Here we pretty dry only have to keep de oars moving. Pull away, boys; pull away!" "That's the right spirit, Nub," said the mate. "I only wish that I could sing as you do." "I sing to cheer up Missie Alice," said Nub in a low voice.
"Dumb as owls, ebery von," returned Sambo. "Good! You see, my man, I must not permit that fellow to escape; at the same time I do not wish to blazon abroad, that it is my friend Henry Stuart who is helping him. Neither do I wish to run the risk of killing my friends in a scrimmage, if they are so foolish as to resist me; therefore I am particular about the men you have told off for this duty.
Now, if any man suspect me to go on work ob dis a kind in de day time, when ebery body see me in you company, he as much mistake as when he kiss his granny for a gal. De night is de proper time for sich a dark business, and it suit me better if I 'scuse altogeder from it. But I wish to 'bleege you, Missa Basset.
You an' me we'll go to markit ebery day wid baskits on our arms, an we'll ob course go round by de walls, where your fadder works. No doubt it's a roundabout way, but what ob dat? We'll go at de hour your fadder feeds wid de oder slabes, an' as we pass we'll drop de two biskits in his lap." "But won't he be taken by surprise, Sally?"
When in Congress, he was a conscience Whig, as opposed to the cotton ones that is, for the anti-slavery doctrine and not "cottoning" for the South. He nearly ex-tinguished himself, for suddenly he went right about face according to the popular song quite a political if not a politic course: You wheel about and jump about, and do just so! And ebery time you jump about, you jump Jim Crow!
When the Lord called out in a loud voice "Cain, where is thy brother Abel," Cain, who was a black man, like Adam, turned pale with fear, and never regained his original color. All his children were pale too; and that, said the preacher, "accounts for de white trash you see ebery war in dese days." How did Cain manage to go "out from the presence of the Lord," who is everywhere?
"Dey all run away, sar, ebery one, de king an' all, and leab his chair behind. Dat great disgrace for him." A council was now held. The Fans were so delighted with the victory they had won, that they expressed their readiness to remain with their white companions as long as they chose, providing these would guarantee that they should be sent home on the expiration of their service. This Mr.
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