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She had always made a practice of saying one thing over and over to all the protracted and Conference meetin's, and she would always bust out a-cryin' before she got it all out. She always said "she wanted to be found always at the foot of the Cross."
""Witches, wizards, elves, gnomes, bull-beggars, fiends, an' devils is debarred the Bloo Grass Country," says Squar' Alexanders, speakin' for himse'f an' his fellow selectmen, "an' they're not goin' to be allowed to hold their black an' sulphurous mass meetin's yere." "'It comes Saturday evenin' an' the necromancer is in the tavern eatin' his supper. Shore! he looks like common folks at that!
Jes nuffin'. Der ain't no mo' use o' fightin' dan ob tryin' ter butt down 'simmons off a foot-an'-a-half tree wid yer head. It don't make no sort o' matter 'bout our rights. Co'se we'se got a right ter vote, an' hold meetin's, an' be like white folks; but we can't do it ef dey's a mind ter stop us. An' dey is dat berry ting! "Nimbus sez he's gwine ter fight, an' 'Liab sez he's gwine ter pray.
Mass' Ed'ards, he say dat de meetin's dey makes coloured folks onsettled; and dey don't hoe de corn good if dey has too much prayin' to do." "And does he forbid them then? Doesn't he let you have prayer- meetings?" " 'Taint Mr. Edwards alone, Miss Daisy," said Margaret, speaking low.
But a few of them nervous old boys, who was placid enough at annual meetin's watchin' a melon bein' cut, just couldn't stand the strain. Every time they got fed up on some new dope from the Wall Street panic peddlers, they'd come around howlin' for a safe and sane policy.
"But McGinty spends all his time at the Gold Nugget." "Well, where would he spend it?" "A Miners' Meetin's a pretty poor machine," McGinty was saying to the ex-Governor, "but it's the best we got." " in a country bigger than several of the nations of Europe put together," responded that gentleman, with much public spirit. "A Great Country!" "Right!" "You bet!"
When I was a girl there wasn't such doin's. My mother'd taken the hide off me if I done the things you do. An' she was right, just as everything in the world is wrong now. Look at your brother, a-runnin' around to socialist meetin's, an' chewin' hot air, an' diggin' up extra strike dues to the union that means so much bread out of the mouths of his children, instead of makin' good with his bosses.
"Whose rules?" I asked. "Laws, honey, 'taint 'cording to rules for we coloured folks to hold meetin's no how. 'Course, we's ought to 'bey de rules; dat's clar." "Who made the rules?" "Who make 'em? Mass' Ed'ards he make de rules on dis plantation. Reckon Mass' Randolph, he make 'em a heap different." "Does Mr. Edwards make it a rule that you are not to hold prayer-meetings?"
Maria busied herself with her fish for a minute, turning and washing it; then, without looking up from her work, she said, in a lowered tone, "'Spect de overseer, he don't hab no favour to such ways and meetin's." "But with me?" I said; "and with Aunt Gary's leave?" "'Spose he like to fix t'ings his own way," said Maria. "Does he forbid them to come?" I asked.
I s'pose you know we've all sorts of meetin's in this country?" "Nein; I dought dere might be meetin's for bolitics, vhen der beople might coome, but I don't know vhat else." "Is't possible! What, have you no 'indignation meetin's' in Jarmany? We count a great deal on our indignation meetin's, and both sides have'em in abundance, when things get to be warm.
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