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Updated: June 28, 2025
The objections I has to d' Mefodis' is them 'sperience meetin's they holds. They 'spects you to stan' up an' tell 'em about all yo' sins, an 'fess all you've been guilty of endoorin' yo' life! Now, sech doin's tu'ns out mighty embarrassin' for a boy like Tom, who's been a-livin' sort o' loose an' lively for a likely numbah of years, sah, an' I couldn't stan' it, sah!
He lit his pipe behind the aft skylight, and then answered, as he puffed clouds of smoke to the lee-side "Well, you see, sir, as there ain't nobody a-livin' in that perticler place, you don't go for to look to hearin' of voices, or, in plain lingo, there's something queer about it." "And that's your opinion, Dan?" "As true as this fog's a-liftin' to windward."
And after Josiah and me got settled down in our room, a good-lookin' one, though small, the children sot off for their hotel, which wuzn't so very fur from ourn, nigh enough so that they could be sent for easy, if we wuz took down sudden, and visey versey. Her husband had been a man of wealth, as you could see plain by the house that he left her a-livin' in.
As told by Scott Mitchell, a former slave: Scott Mitchell, claims his age as somewhere in the 70's but his wool is white on the top of his head. Negroes don't whiten near as quickly as white people, evidently he is nearly 90, or there-a-bouts. "Yes'm I 'members the Civil Wah, 'cause I wuz a-livin' in Christian County whah I wuz bohn, right wif my masteh and mistress. Captin Hester and his wife.
Oh, she says, 'ain't it heaven to be rich again? "No you can say she'd ought to 'a' made him tell her where he got the money. But she trusted him, an' she'd been a-livin' on milk toast an' dates for so long that I can pretty well see how she took it all as what's-his-name took the wild honey, without askin' the Lord whose make it was. Besides, she was sick.
For five minutes he beat the bedclothes; then his spirits rose and, like the mercurial Celt that he was, he chanted blithely a verse from "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched": "'Though, sure 'tis the best way to die, Oh, the divil a betther a-livin'! For sure whin the gallows is high, Your journey is shorter to heaven; But what harasses Larry the most, An' makes his poor sowl melancholy, Is to think av the time whin his ghost Will come in a sheet to sweet Molly!
"What on earth is all this rigmarole about? Are you dreaming or romancing?" "I'm a-telling on you de bressed trufe! Dere's a young lady a-livin' at de Hidden House!" "Eh? Is that really true, Patty?" "True as preaching, miss." "Then, I am very glad of it! I shall certainly ride over and call on the stranger," said Capitola, gaily. "Oh, Miss Cap! Oh, miss, don't you do no sich thing!
The men's all fools now, anyhow, Andy, and some of them is bad, but don't you go and desave that child, that's a-breakin' her heart afther you. And don't ye believe as I ever keered a straw for ye, for I don't keer fer you, nor no other man a-livin'." Andy stood still for some moments, trying in a dumb way to think what to do or say; then he helplessly opened the door and went out.
I dunno how I come to be so took in, but anyways, when James's grief had subsided somewhat, we decided to travel on the remainin' stretch through this vale of tears together. "He told me he had a beautiful home in Taylorville, but was a-livin' where he was so 's to be near the cemetery an' where he could look after dear Annie's grave.
I'd better be insolent than like what some folks is, a-livin' on other folks, an' bringin' a bad name on 'em into the bargain. Here Nanny flung out of the room, leaving the lady to digest this unexpected breakfast at her leisure.
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