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"Tell her I'm here, Hattie. I must see her at once. It's all right. She isn't angry with me." The girl hesitated. "She look mighty white an' sick, suh. She never say a word. Jes' go right up stairs, she did. Ah follers, 'ca'se Ah was skeert about de way she look. She shutten de do' an' drop de bolt, yas, suh, dat's what she do. Lordy, Ah wonder why her ma don't come home an' look after "
I alays did cook ebery night er pot er beans on de fire foh de chilluns ter eat next day while I war at work en Lizzie my daughter uster git up in de night en git her some beans en eat dem en dis dream war so real dat I couldn't tell if hit war Lizzie er no but dis wooman jes glided by my bed en went afore de fire en stood dar den she jes went twixt my bed en went by de wall.
Amy's Indian eyes swam in tears, and she and the mighty Chloe cast pitiful glances at their disgraced companion. "She never did it of her own 'cord," thought the shrewd Amy; "Miss Rusha jes threw on her her spell; she 'witched her as she did Massa; she made her go do it; she jes did now, so!" "You will not enter the house again," said Mrs. Lisle to the proved culprit.
"None," said Archie B., as he put his two pieces of gold under his pillow. "I can't see why that was," wailed Ozzie B. "I done nothin' an' an' got all all the lickin'!" "You jes' reaped my whirlwind," sneered his brother "All fools do!" But later he felt so sorry for poor Ozzie B. because he could not lie on his back at all, that he gave him one of his beautiful coins to go to sleep.
Hit sho' am a pretty sight jes' to go in dat buryin' groun' an' look at 'em all, side by side; an' now she got Brudder Littlejohn to add to de res'. He de onliest one what's got er patch o' whiskers so she gwine to put a little white cat on he' grabe.
It was culpable sorrow too, somewhat, in that he had not prevented it, and a heart-hardening sorrow in that it took the best that he loved. "She jes' collapsed, Bud sudden't like wilted like a vi'let that's stepped on, an' the Doctor says she's got no sho' at all, ther' bein' nothin' to build on.
Immediately Maum Winnie would appear, the very picture of dignified astonishment, "Now, Miss Nelly, ain't you 'shame'? Yer pore mar she bin had a mity onrestless night, an' jes' as she 'bout to ketch a nap o' sleep, yere you bin start all dis 'fusion. Now, her eye dun pop wide open, an' she gwine straight to studyin' agin."
"Same here. Jes' 'bout tuckered out," chimed in Zeb. "It's the effect of the stuff we are working in," said the professor. "Anyhow, we've done enough for to-day. We'll load the lead carboys on the Wondership and then knock off. I don't want you boys to get sick." They took the loaded carboys to the grounded craft and the professor sealed and soldered a cover on each of them.
Seeing the group of people on the sandbar, the journeyer, who was a woman, took the sweeps of her boat and began to work over to them. "Hit handles nice, that bo't!" one of the fishermen said. "Pulls jes' like a skift. Wonder who that woman is?" "I've seen her some'rs," the powerful, angular woman, Mrs. Cooke, said after a time. "Them's swell clothes she's got on.
"Ef dey is why'n't he never come here?" retorted Tom. "I jes' been thinkin' maybe ouah house is so little he miss it in de night; dey says he's a ol' man an' I 'low his sight ain' good." Tom was stricken into silence for a moment by this entirely new view of the matter, and then finding no answer to it, he said "Aw" again and looked superior, but warningly so.
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