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Th'ee times Brer Rabbit jump up en crack his heels tergedder en come down wid de sludge-hammer ker-blam! en eve'y time he jump up, he holler out: "'Stan' fudder, ladies! Yer come de dus'! en sho nuff, de dus' come. "Leas'ways," continued Uncle Remus, "Brer Rabbit got one er de gals, en dey had a weddin' en a big infa'r." "Which of the girls did the Rabbit marry?" asked the little boy, dubiously.

Bimeby dey'll git ter makin' sho' nuff fokes, an' den dere'll be a racket 'roun' here. Dey tells me dat it goes off like one er deze yer torpedoes." "You year dat, don't you?" said one or two of the younger negroes. "Dat's w'at dey tells me," continued Uncle Remus. "Dat's w'at dey sez. Hit's one er deze yer kinder w'atzisnames w'at sasses back w'en you hollers at it."

Hossifer, be them sure 'nuff sogers, or is they only make-believe chaps, like I see down to Orleans? "'They have passed through the Mexican war, and I trust have proved themselves not only worthy of the appellation of real, genuine soldiers, but of veterans, sir." And so forth. We like Colonel Mercy when he talks of himself better than when he talks for himself.

And toward them also flung the earth, enlarging with such indescribable rapidity that Cleveland protested involuntarily, in spite of his knowledge of the peculiar mechanism of the vessel in which they were. "Hold it, Fred, hold it! Way 'nuff!" he exclaimed.

"Soon be to de eend, massa o-o-o-o-oh! Lor-gol-a-marcy! what is dis here 'pon de tree?" "Well," cried Legrand, highly delighted, "what is it?" "Why, 'taint noffin' but a skull somebody bin lef' him head up de tree, and de crows done gobble ebery bit ob de meat off." "A skull, you say! Very well; how is it fastened to the limb? What holds it on?" "Shure 'nuff, massa; mus' look.

"What is your name?" asked the colonel, who had been looking closely at the old man. "Peter, suh Peter French. Most er de niggers change' dey names after de wah, but I kept de ole fambly name I wuz raise' by. It wuz good 'nuff fer me, suh; dey ain' none better."

Dat war de fus' race dat Challenger lost dat season, but I didn' put him t'roo' his best paces, for I t'ought likely dar might be need ob tall runnin' dat night, an' I didn' want him to play out den. De colonel war mightily outed, fur de stakes was heavy, an' I was sorry 'nuff to see him lose.

He wan's to marry our Elsie, 'n' live here in the big house, 'n' have nothin' to do but jes' lay still 'n' watch Massa Venner 'n' see how long 't 'll take him to die, 'n' 'f he don' die fas' 'nuff, help him some way t' die fasser! Come close up t' me, Doctor! I wan' t' tell you somethin' I tol' th' minister t'other day.

So you des lemme know, en ef he gits any wusser I'll be willin' ter gib yer five hund'ed dollars fer 'im, en take my chances on his livin'. "Sho 'nuff, when Henry begun ter draw up wid de rheumatiz en it look like he gwine ter die fer sho, his noo marster sen' fer Mars Dugal', en Mars Dugal' gin him what he promus, en brung Henry home ag'in.

"If t'wuz caze we wuz tew quiet, we'll make racket nuff to suit em arter this, hey, boys? If racket's the ony thing they kin understan, they shall hev a plenty on't." "Israel thought it wuz kingdom come already," said Paul Hubbard, who had hurried down from the iron-works with a gang of his myrmidons, on receipt of the news.