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"They'd say you were a fine, genial, hearty, good-natured blockhead," said Lawrence, laughing. "True, massa, you's right. I'm all dat an' wuss, but not always dat. Sometimes I'm roused; an' I'm awrful w'en I'm roused! You should see me w'en my back's riz. Oh my!"
Jes' like white folks think 'cuz you's white and I'se black, I got to wait on yo' all de time. Ne'm mine, I ain' gwi' do it!" The fence having been pulled down sufficiently low to suit his dogship, he marched sedately through, and, with a hardly perceptible lateral movement of his tail, walked on down the road. Putting up the rails carefully, the negro turned and saw me.
Hockins observed the act, and there passed over his soul another wave of self-condemnation, which was indicated by a deprecatory shake of his rugged head. Observing it, Ebony paused a moment and said "You's an awrful sinner, 'Ockins!" "True, Ebony." "Das jist what I is too. Quite as bad as you. P'r'aps wuss!"
"I feared that," said the King, "for I doubt not that you has friends in your native home which draws you. Well, you wishes to go. I say, `Go with my good-will. There is Breetish ship loading at Tamatave now. If you and you's friends mus' go, there be your chance, and I will send you to Tamatave in palanquins. We all very sorry you go, for you was useful to us, and you was be kind to my mother!"
"You's jes' as safe here as you done been in de circus." "Safer, we hope," Douglas added, with a smile. "Are you two bug?" Polly questioned, as she turned her head from one side to the other and studied them with a new idea. "Well, you can't get none the best of me. I can get away all right, and I will, too."
"If that ain't just like you, Billy," said Jimmy, "you all time got to perpose to make nigger heads yeller and you all time getting little boys in trouble. You 'bout the smart Alexist jack-rabbit they is." "You perposed this here hair business yo'self, Jimmy," retorted his fellow-conspirator. "You's always blamin' yo' meanness on somebody else ever sence you's born."
With unsteady hands he refolded his deed and put it into his pocket, then he turned about and started back up the village street toward the bank. Tump stared after him a moment and presently called out: "Heah, nigger, whut you gwine do?" A moment later he repeated to his friend's back: "Look heah, nigger, I 'vise you ag'inst anything you's gwine do, less'n you's ready to pass in you' checks!"
Jim he didn't quite like that arrangement. He says: "Course I's de stronges', en I's willin' to do a share accordin', but by jings you's kinder pilin' it onto ole Jim, Mars Tom, hain't you?" "Well, I didn't think so, Jim, but you try your hand at fixing it, and let's see." So Jim reckoned it wouldn't be no more than fair if me and Tom done a TENTH apiece.
Tom Anderson hesitated a moment, and then said: "Now, boys, I'll tell you all 'bout it. But you's got to be mighty mum 'bout it. It won't do to let de cat outer de bag." "Dat's so! But tell us wat you yered. We ain't gwine to say nuffin to nobody." "Well," said Tom, "las' night ole Marster had company. Two big ginerals, and dey was hoppin' mad.
Make all tings stashionary. Den dar's one ting more. Tell de goberment to do fur poor darky 'nodder ting, make de ole massa say to me, You's been good slave in ole times, berry good slave; now I gib you one, two, tree, five acres of land for yoursef. Den ole nigger be happy, and massa be happy too; den bof of um bees happy. Hab you a leetle bacca fur dis ole man?"
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