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Silently he slipped down the path by which he had so recently ascended, and, at a good distance from the cabin, but still well in advance of the unhappy negro, hid behind a rock, awaiting his approach. Old Neb, advancing, scared tremendously, was talking to himself in a loud, excited voice. "Oh, golly!" he exclaimed. "Dis am a pretty fix for a bluegrass cullud gemman!
"Well, Miss Alice, dis is Sunday, you know, and dem tings mus not be telled on Sunday, and den you and Miss Ann don't want ole nigger to talk. You go ride and talk wid de young gemman, and maybe to-morrow, or some week-day, young massa can come down from de great house wid de gun to shoot de squirrels along de way, and when he tired, den he can come and rest, and I can tell him all.
Dat red-haided, no-count gemman what's a-makin up to Miss Kate is gwineter git her fo' sho " It was here that St. George had raised his head, his heart in his mouth. "How do you know, Todd?" he asked in a serious tone. He had long since ceased correcting Todd for his oustpoken reflections on Kate's suitor as a useless expenditure of time.
"Neber yer mind," said Clo, with majesty; "neber yer mind, miss; children don' comprehensianise sich like." "I onderstands Miss Clorinda, and I venerates her sentimens," observed Dolf; "but when a gemman finds hisself in sich siety as dis, de language of compliments flows as naturally ter his lips as as cider from a junk bottle."
She shook the bundle of shawls vigorously, until the old lady was thoroughly roused and glared at her with her dark, beady eyes, while she mumbled, "You hyar, shakin' me so, you limb. You, Mandy Ann! Whar did you come from?" "Jacksonville, in course. Whar'd you think? An' hyar's a gemman come to see you, I tell you. Wake up an' say how d'ye."
"No, no, no, Massa Harry," cried the negro, shaking his gray head confidently; "I been to see Massa Harper on he knee pray to God no gemman who pray to God tell of good son, come to see old fader Skinner do that no Christian!" This poor opinion of the Skinners was not confined to Mr.
Dolf ben a tryin' dese ten minits!" "No, no! Bend down here, Vic. Mr. Dolf, if yer's a gemman I ax yer to shut yer eyes." "My duty is to sarve de fair," said Dolf, turning his back and peeping over his shoulder, very curious to know what could be the difficulty. Clo whispered in Victoria's ear with agonised sharpness, "Dem boots am so high, an' my ankle is guv out, jes ondo de buttons!"
It seems but last year when we skipped hand in hand to Marlboro' Street with Mammy Lucy behind us. Are you coming, mammy?" she called. "Yes, mistis, I'se comin'," said a voice from behind the golden-rose bushes, and out stepped Aunt Lucy in a new turban, making a curtsey to me. "La, Marse Richard!" said she, "to think you'se growed to be a fine gemman!
"Tell me all about it, tell me!" cried Billy, almost frightened by his brother's unwonted emotion; but it was a little time before Bob made reply. "I followed he a fine, tall gemman. I had my fingers in his pocket, and he clapped his hand on 'em, and catched me!" "Oh!" exclaimed Billy, with eyes and mouth wide open, in alarm. "And did he not call the beaks, and have you up?"
Dey ain' na'er a man in dis settlement w'at won' tell yer ole Julius McAdoo 'uz bawn an' raise' on dis yer same plantation. Is you de Norv'n gemman w'at's gwine ter buy de ole vimya'd?" "I am looking at it," I replied; "but I don't know that I shall care to buy unless I can be reasonably sure of making something out of it."
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