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"My Lawdy Lawd!" shouted Jonas, emptying the gunny sack on the rock which served as table. There was a chorus of surprise. "What happened, Judge! Did you eat the rest raw?" "A goat, by Jove! Where on earth did it come from?" "What difference does that make? Get it into the pot, Jonas, for the love of heaven!" "As a family provider, Judge, you are to be highly recommended."
"Lawdy, man," chuckled Jumbo, "Ah got ole Bible 'n' ev'ythin', sho nuff." He produced a battered Bible from a mysterious interior "Yea. Old Jumbo's got a Bible!" "Razor, too, I'll bet!" "Marry 'em off, Jumbo!" Together the snake charmer and the camel ascended the cheering aisle and stopped in front of Jumbo, who adopted a grave pontifical air. "Where's your license, camel?"
But right here, just now, before I count ten, you will tell me who sent you here; at the word ten, if I reach it, I pull the trigger. One two three " "Oh, Miché, she gwan to gib me to de devil wid houdou ef I tell you Oh, good Lawdy!" But he did not pause. "Four five six seven eight " "Palmyre!" gasped the negress, and grovelled on the ground.
"De Lawd wouldn't er teched hit wid er ten-foot pole. Dis yer Moses, he ain' wuth de salt dat's put in his bread. He's de wuss er de hull lot " "Why doesn't Betsey get rid of him?" asked Bernard, eyeing the shrinking Moses with disfavour. "I heard Aunt Chris say that Mrs. Willie Wilson in Richmond got a divorce from her husband for good and all " "Lawdy, chile!
"The Lieutenant," she said, "writes in this-yeh note that this-yeh place won't be safe f'om the Yankees much longer'n to-day, and fo' us to send the wounded lady in the avalanch. Which she says, her own self, it'd go rough with her to fall into they hands again. My married daughter she's a-goin' with her, and the'd ought to be a Mr. Sm' oh, my Lawdy! you ain't reg-lahly in the ahmy, air you?"
"It's funny we didn't think of them instead of Diana Allen, last night." "Not so very funny, either," returned Milton with an attempt at a smile. "I'll bet most of us have thought of Miss Allen forty times to once of the men, ever since we met her." "She's the most beautiful woman I ever saw," said Agnew, dreamily. "Lawdy!" groaned Jonas, suddenly, "if I only had something to fish with!
Jumbo was seized by four comedians, stripped of his apron, and escorted to a raised daïs at the head of the ball. There his collar was removed and replaced back side forward with ecclesiastical effect. The parade separated into two lines, leaving an aisle for the bride and groom. "Lawdy, man," roared Jumbo, "Ah got ole Bible 'n' ev'ythin', sho nuff."
Dey didn't usen to heb ter, but now dey is gotter. Lawdy, Marse Rupert, you'll hatter 'scuse me, but de young lawyers, an' de young doctors, dey is scattered about dish yer D'lisleville!" There were certain new sign-boards which excited him to great interest. There was one he never passed without pausing to examine and reflect upon it.
"Lawdy sakes!" she cried, holding up a spangled dress, admiringly. "Ain't dat beautiful!" She drew near the mirror, attempting to see the reflection of the tinsel and chiffon against her very ample background of gingham and avoirdupois. "You'd sure be a swell nigger wid dat on, Honey," she chuckled to herself. "Wouldn't dem deacons holler if dey done see dat?"
I made two dollars an' five an' threppence out'n the Scott party last week; an' I hear tell uv some new folks on Franklin Street gwine give a big party, an' I'm spectin' somethin' out uv dat. Lawdy, Lawdy, Mahs William," she added, after a pause given to reflection, "hit certainly does 'muse me to see how some 'r dese people done come up. But they kain' fool me.
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