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Thereafter the jokers forswore indulgence of their sense of humor and addressed the janitor at full length and with fuller deference, to reap their reward with those whose apartments were warm, whose reasonable requests were met, whose halls were clean, and whose door- knobs shone even as the rare smile of "Mistah Breckenridge" himself.
Johnson," he would say, when, coming from the down-town store where he worked, he would meet the two coming from their own labors in the brickyard, "how are you an' Mistah Johnsonham mekin' it ovah yo' names?" "Well, I don' know that Johnsonham is so much of a name," Ike would say; and Jim would reply: "I 'low it's mo' name than Johnson, anyhow."
Sho' now, how yo' got de heart to stick de knife in him, Mistah Tubbs?" It was significant that Mr. Tubbs, after occupying for a day or two an undistinguished middle place at the board, had somehow slid into the carver's post at the head of the table. Flanking him were the two ladies, so that the Land Forces formed a solid and imposing phalanx.
I've struck it! This is the best yet!" At that moment, as the picture came out more and more plainly, someone knocked on the door of the dark room. "Who is it?" asked Tom. "Gen'man t' see you," said Eradicate. "He say he come from Mistah Peters!" "Mr. Peters that rascally promoter!" whispered Tom to his chum. "What does this mean?"
At last my curiosity became too great to hear any longer, and I sought my friend Mistah Jones at what I considered a favourable opportunity.
The sunbonnet shifted to include the mulatto girl within its full vision, as the latter stood leaning her weight on one side-bent foot, idly wiping her hands upon her apron. "Folks all well down to yo' place, Mistah Bowles?" said she, affably. "Right well." "Um-h-h." Silence then fell until Jinny again found speech.
"'Oh! but you is a monst'us good oberseah; you is de bes' oberseah in dis county, Mistah Johnson, sez Mars Jeems, w'en de oberseah got th'oo wid his tale; 'en dey ain' nebber be'n no nigger-breaker lack you roun' heah befo'. En you desarbes great credit fer sendin' dat nigger 'way befo' you sp'ilt 'im fer de market.
She is going to do embroidery." "Why, Sally will know of a room," Mr. Bentley replied. "Sam!" he called. "Yessah yes, Mistah Ho'ace." Sam appeared at the door. "Ask Miss Sally to come down, if she's not busy."
And he come to de break ob de poop wif de Old Man, and de Old Man say, 'Ah got a good man watchin' every move he makes; he can't turn around in de foc'sle wifout me knowin' it. We'll be wahned befoh it happens. Dat's what de Old Man say to Mistah Mate. And Ah knows he mus' be talkin' about de big fellow, and so Ah tells Boston about it." "But didn't you hear any names mentioned?" I asked him.
Eradicate was presiding over a portable sawmill, worked by a treadmill, on the incline of which was the mule, its ears laid back, and an unmistakable expression of anger on its face. "Why, Rad, what are you doing?" cried Tom. "Good land o' massy! Ef it ain't young Mistah Swift!" cried the darky. "Howdy, Mistah Swift! Howdy!
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