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Middieton and his children after him, hobbled up to Fanny, and laying her hard, shriveled black hand on her young mistress’ bright locks, said, "The Lord who makes the wind blow easy like on the sheared lamb, take keer of my sweet child and bring her back agin to poor old Aunt Katy, who’ll be all dark and lonesome, when Sunshine’s done gone."
Middleton, "but no more like me than Sunshine’s pet kitten is like our old watch dog, Tige. He was soft like in his ways and took to book larnin mightily, and I’m—but everybody knows what old Josh is. Hold on thar! Save the pieces!" said he to Frank, who, unable longer to restrain his mirth, had deluged his plate with coffee. "Pray excuse me," said Frank, mortified beyond measure at his mishap.
At last the good-byes were all said, Julia merely noticed the blacks with a slight nod, and then sprang nimbly into the carriage, which disappeared from view just as the negroes struck up in a loud, clear and not unmusical tone: "Oh, it’s lonesome now on the old plantation, It’s lonesome now on the old plantation, It’s lonesome now on the old plantation, Case Sunshine’s gone away."
Oh, I didn’t or’to do so, I didn’t; and I ain’t goin’ to any more. You shall live with me when Sunshine’s gone; and we would be so happy, if your poor mother could only see us and know it all." From that time nothing could exceed Uncle Joshua’s kindness to his daughter. He seemed indeed trying to make up for the past, and frequently he would whisper to himself, "No, I didn’t or’to do so.
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