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"I b'lieves a bank sol' us nex' to Marse L.Q. Chambers. I 'members him well. I was a house-servant an' de overseer dassent hit me a lick. Marster done lay de law down. Mos' planters lived on dey plantations jus' a part o' de year. Dey would go off to Saratogy an' places up nawth. Sometimes Marse L.Q. would come down to de place wid a big wagon filled wid a thousan' pair o' shoes at one time.
An' I know it's orful funny to see how straight Jinny's face looks wen she's almos' ready to bust, while ole Miss is frettin' and fumin' 'bout dem Yankees an' de war. But, somehow, Robby, I ralely b'lieves dat we cullud folks is mixed up in dis fight. I seed it all in a vision.
All at once the woodpecker was solemnly tapping tapping. Byers glanced up, as if to discern whence the sudden sound came, and once more bent to his work. "Ye b'lieves, then, ez he stole that thar grant from Nate Griggs?" asked Perkins. "I be SURE he done it," said Byers, unequivocally. The tanner took his pipe from his lips. "What ails ye ter say that, Andy?" he exclaimed excitedly.
"'Hello, Jack, he says, an' his manner is insultin'; 'been makin' it smoky down on the old San Simon lately? "'No; not since last fall, says Jack, plenty light an' free; 'an' now I thinks of it, I b'lieves I sees that Navajo hoss-thief of an oncle of yours when I'm down thar last. I ain't run up on him none lately, though. Where do you-all reckon he's done 'loped to?
And I'll hold this jail, me and Doty, as long as possible, and you drive like hell! You see?" "I didn't know you really wanted to save the nigger," his brother remonstrated; "nobody b'lieves that" "I don't, as a nigger. But you go on now, and I'll send Doty with the telegram, and make time by talkin' to Mr. Morris.
I b'lieves in my soul he's got somebody buried up thar. He's a raal ole peacock. Dat's de way! 'Kase I'm ole and wuthless, no matter 'bout me; and dat ole nigger 'lowed to make a fool of hisself, dressin up drunk in a ruffled shirt. No matter, I'll be dead and out of der way, fore long."
Doctor Cutter done already distracted two blood-vultures from his 'pendercitis, an' I lef him now prezaminatin' de chile's ante-bellum fur de germans ob de neuroplumonia, which ef he's disinfected wid, dey gotter 'noculate him wid the ice-coldlated quarantimes but I b'lieves it's conjuration!" A lady had the misfortune to lose her season ticket for the railway.
He b'lieves in ghosts, anyhow, an' could give us a yarn about 'em, I knows, if he likes. Come along now, Tim, like a good fellow." "Ay, that's it," cried Briant; "give us a stiff 'un now. Don't be afeard to skear us, old boy."
"Oh," said Sullivan, "I didn't think of that: in troth, if you're timersome, it's more than the world b'lieves of you. Well, well I'll hang it up again; so good night, an' a sound sleep to you, an' to every man that has a free conscience in the sight of God!"
"He's taken up extraordinary with the repairs, Mr. Fenwick. He's in and about and over the place, looking to everything; and feyther says he knows so much about it, he b'lieves the boy could do it all out o' his own head. There's nothing feyther ever liked so much as folks to be strong and clever." "Perhaps the Squire's tradesmen won't like all that. Is Mitchell going to do it?"
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