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She's worth two thousand. I've been in the business twenty yea's, and I neve' seen her equal. Give me a bid, Mr. Mr. you have the advantage of me, suh." "Eight hundred and thirty-five!" said Stephen. "Now, Mr. Jerkins, now, suh! we've got twenty me' to sell." "Eight fifty!" said Mr. Jerkins. "Eight sixty!" said Stephen, and they cheered him. Mr. Jenkins took his cigar out of his teeth, and stared.
"So you got lost! Who finally set you straight? I heard you talking, there, with someone." "A young pusson, suh," said Neb, with dignity. Lorey had befriended him, he knew, at last; but he had scared him into panic to begin with. "A young pusson, suh," he said, "what made me think he was a paintuh, suh, to staht with. Made me think he was a paintuh, suh, or else de debbil, wid his howlin'."
Leave out Caarter Hall, suh, and you pa'alize the whole scheme. Am I not right, Fitz?" "Unquestionably, Colonel. It is really all the life it has," replied Fitz, solemn as a graven image, blowing a cloud of smoke through his nose. "And then, suh," continued the colonel with increasing enthusiasm, oblivious to the point of Fitz's remark, "see the improvements.
You an' Miss Cissie acts too much lak white folks fuh a nigger lak me to jine you, Mr. Peter." Peter made a sincere effort to be irritated, but he was not. "That's no way to feel. It's exactly what I was talking about, racial self-reliance. You've married hundreds of colored couples." "Ya-as, suh," the old fellow scratched his black jaw. "I kin yoke up a pair uv ordina'y niggers all right.
"Yas, suh," agreed Zachariah, brightening, "an' de yaller-hammer an' de blue-jay an' de an' de rattlesnake," he concluded, with a roving, uneasy look along the roadside. "Do not forget the saucy parroquets we saw yesterday as we came through the forest.
The story is true to nature, and might have happened half a hundred times, and no doubt did happen, in those horrid days before the war." "By the way, Julius," I remarked, "your story doesn't establish what you started out to prove, that a rabbit's foot brings good luck." "Hit's plain 'nuff ter me, suh," replied Julius. "I bet young missis dere kin 'splain it herse'f."
Now, there's no need of hunting a needle in a haystack, for we've got a real trail to follow up." "That's right, suh, and scouts ought to be able to accomplish the task," Chatz remarked in his superior way, which, however, everybody knew was only skin-deep, the result of his Southern birth and training, for he was a splendid fellow at heart, and well liked.
"Here, George, is the package of food for you to carry on your long trip. And I want you to take this, also. It's only five dollars, but it may help out on the way to Chattanooga," said Will, slipping the bill into the old fellow's black hand. George looked at it as though he could not believe his eyes. "Five dollahs! Gorry! dat am mo' dan I done see dis t'ree yeahs, suh! Five dollahs!
The Major wiped his eyes on the end of the neckerchief as he tied it about his throat. "But, if they elect their President, he may send down an army to free you," he went on, with something like a sob of anger, "and I'd like to know what we'd do then, Congo." "Lawd, Lawd, suh," said Congo, as he wrapped the robe about his master's knees.
"Nice tongue samwich, suh? Nice lettuce samwich, lady?" he could be heard vociferating perhaps a little too much as if he had sandwiches for sale. "Lemme jes' lay this nice green lettuce samwich on you' plate fer you." His wide-spread hand bore the tray of sandwiches high overhead, for his style in waiting was florid, though polished.
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