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When dark come, de men folks would hang up a wash pot, bottom up'ards, in de little brush church-house us had, so's it would catch de noise an' de oberseer wouldn' hear us singin' an' shoutin'. Dey didn' min' us meetin' in de day time, but dey thought iffen we stayed up ha'f de night we wouldn' work so hard de nex' day an' dat was de truf. "You should'a seen some of de niggers get 'ligion.
"That's the last job that sneakin' Duffy and Dan McGaw'll ever put up on me. Oh, but ye should'a' minded the face on him, Gran'pop!" untying her hood and breaking into a laugh so contagious in its mirth that even Babcock joined in without knowing what it was all about.
She found the tidy little house in great disorder, with Mitty sitting on the edge of Granny's bed, her face swollen with tears, while Granny sat up in bed rocking to and fro and bewailing her fate for a poor unfortunate buddy who should'a' died years agone. "What has happened?" cried Christina in dismay. "Has Granny " "B-b-Burke!" sobbed Mitty, "'E-e's a reservist."
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