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Yo gits yo fiah goin' jes so under de oven, den you shovels some fiah up on top de oven fo to get you bakin jes right. Dey wuz big black kettles wid hooks an dey run up an down like on pulleys ovah de oven stove. Den dere wuz de col'house. No 'lectric ice box lak now, but a house under groun' wheah things wuz kept jest as col' as a ice box. No'em don't 'member jes how it were fix inside."
Buzzard flap his wings, en scramble 'roun' right smartually, he did, but 'twant no use. Brer Fox had de 'vantage er de grip, he did, en he hilt 'im right down ter de groun'. Den Mr. Buzzard squall out, sezee: "'Lemme 'lone, Brer Fox. Tu'n me loose, sezee; 'Brer Rabbit 'll git out. You er gittin' close at 'im, sezee, 'en leb'm mo' licks'll fetch 'im, sezee.
"Of coorse, he landed fust; an' I could hear by the stompin' o' hoofs, that his suddint appearance hed kicked up a jolly stampede among the critters upon the island. I could see both deer and mar dancing all over the groun', as if Old Nick himself hed got among 'em. "None o' 'em, howsomdever, thort o' takin' to the water. They hed all hed enough o' that, I guess.
Dey was a little sickly nigger wench 'bout ten year ole dat 'uz good to me, en hadn't no mammy, po' thing, en I loved her en she loved me; en she come out whah I 'uz workin' en she had a roasted tater, en tried to slip it to me robbin' herself, you see, 'ca'se she knowed de overseer didn't give me enough to eat en he ketched her at it, en giver her a lick acrost de back wid his stick, which 'uz as thick as a broom handle, en she drop' screamin' on de groun', en squirmin' en wallerin' aroun' in de dust like a spider dat's got crippled.
"Please, mass'," he continued, "hold de snake a bit don't let um touch de groun' dam dogs dey smell um!" I relieved him of his burden; and, holding it as he desired, stood watching him in silence. The loblolly pine grows with a straight, naked shaft and pyramidal head, often without branches, to the height of fifty feet.
Among them were some school boys, and one of them, a red-headed lad, was telling his brother all about it. "Now, Ozzie B., this is a monkey the furst you've ever seed. He looks jes' like I told you sorter like a man an' sorter like a nigger an' sorter like a groun' hog." "The pretties' thing I ever seed," said Ozzie B., walking around and staring delightedly. The crowd grew larger.
He know wha' de deep watah is mighty well, but he aint gwine to take you dar. He run you on de groun' suah's you live and breathe." "Never mind talking about that. You called him captain a minute ago. What is he captain of?" "Well, sar, moster, previous to de beginning of de wah he was cap'n ob a trader; but endurin' de wah he run a privateer an' blockade runner; de Osprey he call her."
That's where I loses a terrible amount o' time, an' I was beginnin' to think it was all up with me. By the time I got headed roun' agen for the tree, I sees that the bear is comin' down with his back to me. When he hits groun' he sees the Injun dancin' roun' the foot o' the west pine; so he makes for the redskin, an' chases him up while I climbs the east pine.
Miss F'raishy been mighty good, too, sho. She ain't useter niggers like some w'ite folks, en she can't git 'long wid um, but she puts up wid me mighty well. I tuck holt er de little piece er groun' w'at she had, en by de he'p er de Lord we bin gittin on better dan lots er folks.
They're risin' out o' the groun' yonder loike so many rats. Here they are, byes! Now ter hell wid 'em!" His words flashed the whole situation back to my consciousness. The house still stood, wrecked by cannon, but yet a protection.
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