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Bolster striding toward them. Shorty hung back instinctively for an instant, and then braced up and bade her good morning. She grunted an acknowledgment, and said rather imperiously: "Y're a-gwine, air yo'?" "Certainly," answered Shorty. "And yo'?" she inquired, looking at Si. "He's a-goin', too," answered Shorty. "Mustn't expect him to talk.
You a-gittin' up 'fore daybreak like the rest of us folks and ridin' off Goddlemighty knows whar. It ain't a-gwine to do now. Whar air ye from?" But as he rode up and dismounted at the porch, each saw that something unusual had happened. He tied his horse and came up the steps in silence. "Boys," he said, when he stood among them, "I want Steven.
"It's a-comin', now!" shrieked Pete. "We's a-gwine to be smoddehed. Oh, Lordy, Lordy, Ah's a dead niggeh." "Hold on tight, all, look out for yourself, Paul," Mr. Murren cried; "he's turning!" But he was wrong.
Yes, tell dem preshis anjuls we's a-gwine to jine 'em soon: Our voices we's a-trainin' fur to sing de glory tune; We's ready when you wants us, an' it ain't no matter when O Mashr! call yo' chillen soon, an' take 'em home! Amen. The churches which had the greatest influence upon the negroes were those which relied least upon ritual and most upon exhilaration.
For the old man had laboriously fetched out a rusty wolf-trap, and was now earnestly inspecting and overhauling it. "Whut am I a-gwine to do 'long o' this hyer, Cornely? W'y, I am jes p'intedly a-gwine to set it in my grain-room. Buck Fuson air a bad man, honey. There's two men's blood to his count.
"Bre'er Nimbus," said Eliab solemnly, "you gib me your word you git all dis money honestly?" "Co'se I did. Yer don't s'pose Nimbus am a-gwine ter turn thief at dis day, does yer?" "How you get it?" asked Eliab sternly. "How I git it?" answered the other indignantly. "You see dem clo'es? Hain't I been a-sojerin' nigh onter two year now? Hain't I hed pay an' bounty, an' rations too?
Approaching cautiously, he discovered with a dull sense of horror that a soldier had been buried where he had fallen, but covered so slightly that the tumulus scarcely more than outlined his form. "Ob cose I knowed I d hab ter see dese tings foh I started. What I such a fool fer? De Feds nor de Yanks am' a-gwine ter bodder me if I am' steppin' on 'em or ober 'em."
The brute wur still comin' nearer; but I noticed that he wur a-gwine slower an' slower, every now an' agin risin' to his hind-feet, clawin' his nose, an' sniffin' the air. "I seed that it wur the red blanket that puzzled him; an' seein' this, I crep' closter behint it, an' cached as much o' my karkidge as it 'ud kiver.
Airter I got ther', Sue sez, se' she; 'Yess us pick up an' go an' light in on Puss, se' she, 'an' fine out sump'n' nuther that's a-gwine on 'mongst folks, se' she." "Yes, lay it all onter me," said Mrs. Parmalee, looking over her spectacles at Mrs. Poteet; "I sez to Purithy, s' I, 'Purithy, yess go down an' see Puss, s' I; 'maybe we'll git a glimpse er that air new chap with the slick ha'r.
I'se a 'memberin' yer all de time. You hab no faith, Mas'r Graham, and poor ole Aunt Sheba mus' hab faith for yer. An' so I will. I'se a wrastlin' wid de Lord for yer all de time, an' I'se a-gwine to wrastle on till I sees yer an' Missy Grace an' all comin' inter de light;" and she threw her apron over her head, and went sobbing away.
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