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The Bureau gent'man fix it all, jess like I tole you. He said dat he done 'nquired, an' yo' fif' was wuth dat two fifties, one hundred an' I let him off de res." "But what gentleman?" "Dat gent'man whar was at de Spottswood Hotel. He tole me he wuz agent for de Bureau. An' I tell you, Mahs William, dey's quality, dem folks. You kain' fool Becky." Of course I did not enlighten Mammy.
As foh me, I'm ti'ed; life ain't wuth the effo't." Maxwell regarded him. "You don't look like a quitter," he said, thoughtfully. The boy's face blazed again, but he kept his temper. "To quit means to give somethin' up," he said, doggedly. "I ain't givin' anythin' up. I 'ain't got anythin' to give up.
He's got to be a senator; some day he'll be chief-justice of Delaware: then, what'll niggers be wuth thar?" "I fancy, Joseph, you might be a legislator in Delaware if your inclinations ran that way?" "Easy enough, but I makes legislators. My wife, Margaretta her first husband's sister is the wife of the chancellor." "Hola! oh! How came that great alliance?"
"I thought there were two dozen," Rebecca responded, in a distressed voice. "Of course there are two dozen," said Rose, promptly. "You 'ain't counted 'em right, father. Go along, Rebecca; it's all right." "I tell ye it ain't," said Silas. "There ain't but twenty-three. It's bad enough to be payin' twice what they're wuth for eggs, without havin' of 'em come short."
"And you hev your chickens, too." Uncle William fixed his glance placidly on a strutting fowl that had appeared around the corner, cocking a surprised eye at them. William regarded her thoughtfully. "When a man's alone, there ain't much he can do for folks," he said slowly, "except feed Juno night and mornin', and she catches so many mice it ain't really wuth while. Now a hen needs to be fed."
"One er dem big cat-tail-lookin' mullen-stalks would grow in heah, Mars Tom, I reck'n, but she wouldn't be wuth half de trouble she'd coss." "Don't you believe it. We'll fetch you a little one and you plant it in the corner over there, and raise it. And don't call it mullen, call it Pitchiola that's its right name when it's in a prison. And you want to water it with your tears."
Hit seems like de 'oman nairy a man is laid claim ter ain' wuth claimin'. Ain' dat so, bro' Ish?" But Uncle Ish only grunted in retort, his head nodding drowsily. The tremulous tracery the wood-fire cast upon his face gave it an expression of dumb intensity which adumbrated all the pathos and the patience of his race.
"Hollis says it's K; stands for Flyaway." "Well, you're such a pretty little pink, I guess I'll take it; but 'tain't wuth lookin' at," said the crafty old woman, who saw at a glance it was pure linen, and quite fine. "Now run along, baby; your mummer will be waitin' for you." Fly walked on slowly. Ought she to have parted with her very best hangerfiss!
"Own my farm free an' clear, got a good lot er stock an' tools on the place, an' I'm wuth two thousand dollars in cash!" The speaker was old Josiah Boyden, one of the "seelectmen," and a member of the school committee. His greatest pride lay in the fact that he was a self-made man, and truly he looked as if constructed upon a home made pattern.
"Yo' mother still a eatin' of spoon vidults, Laz?" "No, doc' he 'lows she kin eat knife an' fork stuff now." "Any news over yo' way?" "Nuthin' wuth dividin'. Doc' he sewed Patterson up an' 'lows he may git well." "Why, what's the matter with Patterson?" "Sam Perdue cut him with a knife." "Fur pity's sake," Margaret exclaimed. "I ain't hearn about it," said Jasper.
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