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"How are ye, gentlemen?" says stout John Myers, the "obeshay," which is negro for "overseer." "I say, there! you Cuffee, that basket ain't half full o' corn. I s'pose you're goin' to clean out all the game by Chris'mas? You Cæsar, why don't you fill up old Chester's stall with trash?
We are considerate enough to withdraw before the sermon, lest our presence should embarrass the preacher, but a little eavesdropping gives us an opportunity of hearing how practically he deals with "lyin' an' tiefin', an' onbehavin' 'mongst de nyoung 'omans," and how he holds up "de obeshay," as Saint Paul did the magistrate, in terror to those who "play 'possum w'en de grass too t'ick," or "stick t'orn in he finger so he can't pick 'nuff cotton w'en de sun too hot."
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