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"Well, now, Masa Tom, I shorely would laik t' 'blige yo', I shore would. But de fack ob de mattah am dat I has a mos' particular job ob white washin' t' do dish mornin', an' I 'spects I'd better be gittin' at it. It's a mos' particular job, an', only fo' dat, I'd be mos' pleased t' go up in de airship.
Wonnell, what do you put yourself at sech pains fur to 'blige a pore slave girl that ain't but half white? I thought a minute, so as to say something that wouldn't skeer her off, an' I says: 'Roxy, it's becaze I'm sech a pore, worthless feller that the white gals won't look at me! The tears come right to her eyes, an' she says: 'Mr.
The cook says t' me that he'd rather be a cook than a skipper, an' a skipper than a ship's undertaker, but he've no objection t' turn his hand t' anything t' 'blige a party o' friends: which he'll do, says he, by takin' the schooner t' Broad Cove o' the Harbourless Shore, which is a bad shelter in a nor'east gale, says he, but the best he can manage.
You want it all yourself. Wall, go ahead. An' you needn't worry about what I told you this morning. My word goes every time. This ain't going to make no difference. I'm not goin' to squeal on that jest because you won't 'blige me." He made as though to return his dollars to his pocket. He had turned away, but his shrewd eyes held his companion in their focus.
That give me a scarer the wust kind; an' when I told doctor haow things was, he sez, kinder jokin', "'Better git merried right away, then. Parson Dill is tew come an' see the old lady, an' he'll dew both jobs tew oncet. "'Will yeou, Bewlah? sez I. "'Yes, Hiram, to 'blige yeou, sez she.
" an' a hundred!" she concluded, breathless. "Well," the doctor drawled, rubbing his nose, "I'll modify it," whereupon Martha smiled, "just to 'blige you," whereupon she blushed. So he scratched a deal of the letter out; then he sealed it, strode to the stove, opened the door, flung the letter into the flames, slammed the door, and turned with a wondrously sweet smile to the amazed little Jutts.
"'I'd be wonderful glad t' 'blige you, skipper, says the cook, 'an' I'd like t' 'blige all hands. 'Twon't be by my wish, says he, 'that anybody'll die o' the grub they gets. "'Cook, says the skipper, 'shake! I knows a man, says he, 'when I sees one.
"Sally, 'deed no!" cried Clo. "It's nuff fur her ter see such tings widout eatin' 'em a lazy, good-fur-notin' piece." "Den ter 'blige yer I'll dispose of it," said Dolf, and he did so in just three mouthfuls.
"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep, just a little, you know, to swear by, as 't were," said the trader, jocularly; "and, then, I'm ready to do anything in reason to 'blige friends; but this yer, you see, is a leetle too hard on a fellow a leetle too hard." The trader sighed contemplatively, and poured out some more brandy.
Will you saddle the brown mare for me?" "She am waiting, Massa David. I tole Cassie to get her ready, and some bread and meat, and dis, Massa Davie, if you'll 'blige ole Plato." Then he laid down a rude bag of buckskin, holding the savings of his lifetime. "How much is there, Plato?" "Four hundred dollars, sar. Sorry it am so little." "It was for your freedom, Plato."
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