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"I tells him dat Marse Robert's mother wuz a Carter. I tells him dat he could count more dan one hundred gemmen his kin. Dat his folks allus had been de very fust fambly in Virginy. I tells him dat he marry my Missis, de gran' daughter o' ole Gineral Washington his-salf an' en " He paused. "An' den, what ye reckon dat fool nigger say ter me?" "Couldn't guess."
Claudia Merlin!" exclaimed the judge, in a voice of thunder, as he started to his feet and stood staring at the speaker. "Oh, ole marse, for de Lord's sake, don't! You scare away all de little sense dem debbils has lef' me!" cried Katie, shuddering. "His wretched lackey!" vociferated the judge.
As soon as Uncle Bob's back was turned, Gus, who had wearied of the Sunday-school, slipped out, and the old man had not noticed the change. The confusion resulting from this trifling circumstances was fearful. "Dut" made the first child. The question, "What did he make yer fur?" was promptly answered, "Marse Adum." "Eve wuz de fus man." "Marse Cain wuz de fus 'oman." "Marse Abel kilt his brudder."
The song that has been given shows one of the views which a race having little knowledge of political economy took of this somewhat peculiar but perhaps necessary measure of governmental finance. The group broke up soon after Nimbus arrived, and Berry, following him upon the porch said, as he laid his banjo in the window: "Wal, an' what did de Cap'n say 'bout my case 'gin Marse Granville Sykes?"
Den he went in to dinner all by hisself. An' young Mark he waited on de table, w'ich he tell me, w'en I ax him dis mornin', how de ole marse eat much as ujual, wid a good relish. Den arter dinner he went to de liberairy and sot dere a long time. Ole John say it were midnight 'fo' de ole marse walk up stairs an' call him to wait on him."
They had the dollars, they were on top; but some day the nemesis of Good-breeding would smite them the army of the ghosts of Gentility would rise, and with "Marse Robert" and "Jeb" Stuart at their head, would sweep away the hordes of commercialdom. Thyrsis saw a great deal of this forgotten chivalry.
Parton. "Maybe it don't make no difference to white folks, but looks like they's always 'spicioning niggers," continued Manda, with a shake of her head. "Tilly 'lows it's that thar ring of old Marse Gilpin's." "Hardly," said Mrs. Parton, with a laugh. Belle, remembering the stranger, wondered if it might not be true. Such talk among the servants of Friendship was nothing new.
"You see," he said, "he won't open it for nobody. Not even for th' man as owns it an' th' mare behind it." "Give me the key!" said Frank. "De key de key " Neb stammered. "I said the key!" The old negro advanced pitifully. "Fo' de lawd, Marse Frank, I hasn't got it!" "He'd guard it with his life!" said Holton, with deep sarcasm. "Where is it?" Frank demanded.
"You must stay here." "Marse John," the old darky approached with a troubled look, "you never used to go on dese heah trips widout Zack! Ain' you gwine take 'im 'long? Dar ain' no one else is got de knack of holdin' you up ef you gits stung some, an' you knows it, Marse John!"
Jake, who was lying on the ground with some other negroes, ran forward and unfastened his horse, and gave him the reins. "Want me to go back wid yer, Marse John?" he asked. "No," answered Westerfelt, and he drove rapidly homeward. Reaching the stable, he put up his horse, and went to the room over the office.
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