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I told 'em dat dey oughter be 'shamed demselves to be smellin' round dat way; and to provide against dar doin's in future, I give dem each a good kick and sent dem away." "Do not exaggerate your story so much," said Rosalind. "Give the truth and nothing else." "Qua'r, folks won't believe all dis pusson observes," said he, with an offended air.
Well, they tells me Lawd knows what they calls it bureau for! they tells me that of a colored pusson goes down thar and gives in what he wuz worth women either, mind you that the guv'mint would pay um." Mammy paused for corroboration, but I determined to hear what she might add to this remarkable statement. "Well?"
"Any pusson could have guessed dat ar," put in Victoria, in an irritated way; "yer needn't make sich a mysteriousness." "I shall make a mysteriousness or shall luff it alone, jis' as I tink best," retorted Clo, "so yer needn't go a meddlin' wid my dumplin', Miss Vic, 'cause yer'll git yer fingers burnt if yer does."
"Look h'yar!" cried Susan, at the end of some energetic remarks, "is dar enny pusson h'yar who kin count up figgers?" Inquiries on the subject ran through the crowd, and in a few moments a black boy, about fourteen, was pushed forward as an expert in arithmetic. "Now, you Jim," said Susan, "you's been to school, an' you kin count up figgers.
"I would ha' given all my old shirts to see a darkey riding Basset," said Tom, whose merriment increased the more he dwelt on the idea. "A colored pusson as light complexum as a white man in de dark," exclaimed Primus, grinning.
Victoria ran up stairs, two steps at a leap, and, in a breath, was shutting out the beautiful sunset, and quenching a thousand flashes of arrowy rays that scattered gold over the plate-glass. "Now," said Clorinda, as the last shutter was closed, "yer can take the spy-glass and see if any pusson is comin' up from the pint." Victoria was only too glad.
"From what I can learn, I should judge you talked ruther too loud about your money; for there was a pusson heerd you in the ferry-boat, and took pains to go in the same car afterwards, and pick your pocket." "Pick my pocket?" "Yes, your pocket. You wise, wonderful young man!" "How? When? Where?"
It's gorn to a pusson I can trust to tyke keer of it, and I'm trooly thenkful " "It jest amarnts to this, miss: the biziness is too much for the missus as things is " "I wouldn't keer if my 'ealth was what it used to be, in the dyes when I 'ad Booboo." "But it ain't, and she's often said as how she'd like a young laidy to live with her and 'elp her with the shop."
"Well, you see, Mis' Slogan, she's tuck a most unaccountable dislike to Lizzie, an' a pusson like well, some do think her trouble has sorter turned 'er brain, an' the's no rail tellin' what quar notion may strike 'er." "Do you think so, Mis' Lithicum?" Mrs. Slogan retained the big smooth shuttle in her hand and eyed the speaker anxiously, her eyelids quivering. "To be downright plain, yes, I do.
I'll bet dat liberry ain' fit fer a pusson to set in!" The laughter which greeted this detracted nothing from her indignation, and she turned again toward the rear premises, shaking her head and mumbling direful things. "That Dale, by the way," the Colonel said at last, "is a curious and remarkable chap. Positively, sir, he gives me a fresh and agreeable surprise each day!"
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