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I's noticed, in my 'sperience, dat de young slabes as has got most self-conceit an' imprence is allers hardest to kill." "I scarce know whether to take that as encouragement or otherwise," returned Foster, with the first laugh he had given vent to for a long time. "Take it how you please, Geo'ge, as de doctor said to de dyin' man won't matter much in de long-run.
Pompey, waiting to drive the doctor home, caught the words, spoken as he descended the steps to enter the carriage, and came forward eagerly. "If you please, Missus," he said, touching his hat, "Dyce would come. She's hed a powerful sight of 'sperience nussin' fevers in New Orleans. She'd be proper glad ter tend Miss 'Vadney." "How is that?" questioned the busy doctor.
De preacher's 'n uncommon relijus man, an' de 'speriences uv de bredren is mighty upliftin'. Yes, sah!" "Well, see that they don't lift you up so high that you'll forget to come down again. I suppose you have an experience in common with the rest?" "Yes, Mass Hildreff," and the palm-leaf made another gyration through the air. "I'se got a powerful 'sperience, sah." "Well, off you go.
"We all have experienced university discipline," Dudley suggested. "It is swift and powerful, and nobody ever knows where it will hit next." Lorimer appeared to be pondering the matter. Then he turned to Lloyd Avalons. "D' you ever 'sperience university discipline?" he demanded, with grave anxiety. Lloyd Avalons flushed angrily, and Thayer judged that it was time to interpose.
The objections I has to d' Mefodis' is them 'sperience meetin's they holds. They 'spects you to stan' up an' tell 'em about all yo' sins, an 'fess all you've been guilty of endoorin' yo' life! Now, sech doin's tu'ns out mighty embarrassin' for a boy like Tom, who's been a-livin' sort o' loose an' lively for a likely numbah of years, sah, an' I couldn't stan' it, sah!
Growther drew a long, meditative breath, and remarked sententiously, "Well, I've allers heard that 'sperience was an awfully dear school; but we do learn in it. I'll bet my head you will never pay another dollar without takin' a receipt." "What chance will I ever have to make another dollar? They have raised a mad-dog cry against me, and I shall be treated as if I were a dog."
I was a wishin last Sunday, when I gin in my 'sperience in meetin, that I had one of master's old ruffled shirts on. I know I could a 'scoursed them niggers powerful. Its a hard thing to wear a ruffled shirt. Dey sticks out and pushes up to people's chins I mean people dat aint born to wear 'em. Master wears 'em as if he was born in 'em, and I could too.
Wilson drew out the revolver which he had managed to keep through all the confusion. In addition to that he had some fifty cartridges loose in his pocket. "Good!" commented Stubbs. Then he took an inventory of his own resources. "In th' fust place, I has some three hundred dollars in gold in this here leather belt 'bout my waist. Never had less in it since a 'sperience I had forty year ago.
I finds mahself," continued Wash, reflectively, "circumnavigatin' ma mind to de eend dat disher 'sperience we is all goin' t'rough is a hallucination ob de brain. In odder words, we is all climbin' trees an' makin' a noise like de nuts wot grows dere. Do you hear me?" "We hear you," said Jack. "And if you think you're crazy, all right.
I sez 'very well, tho' things has changed since slavery days. Those wuz good ole days for de black man; didn't hafter worry about nuthin'. Now, I sho' does mah share ob worryin'. I worries from one meal to de odder, I worries about whure I'ze gwine get some mo' clothes when dese wears out? "I tole de Governor mah 'sperience wif de Republican Party durin' de wahr.
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