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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Do you mean to say that you'll take no more orders from me?" the old lady asked, in tones of suppressed anger. "Kyant do mo' 'n one ting ter oncet. Ob co'se I git yo' breakfas' when I kin. Reck'n dough we soon hab ter disergree on my wages. I'se a free ooman." "Oh, you are free and I am not. That's the new order of things your Yankee friends would bring about."
"Well, no, she wasn't," Reverdy began, and Braile asked: "And did you wake her up and tell her about it?" "Well, no, I didn't, Squire, that's a fact. She woke me up. I just crep' in quiet and felt out the soft side of a puncheon for a nap, and the firs' thing I know was Sally havin' me by the shoulder, and wantun' to know about gittun' that corn groun' for breakfas'. My!
I mak' fire queeck an' cook de breakfas', den you' nose goin' work all right. I got beeg s'prise for dat li'l nose to-day." The top of Rouletta's head, her eyes, then her mouth, came cautiously out from hiding. "What is it, 'Poleon? Something to eat?" "Sapre! What I tol' you?
I 'uz hungry, but I warn't afeard; bekase I knowed ole missus en de widder wuz goin' to start to de camp-meet'n' right arter breakfas' en be gone all day, en dey knows I goes off wid de cattle 'bout daylight, so dey wouldn' 'spec to see me roun' de place, en so dey wouldn' miss me tell arter dark in de evenin'. De yuther servants wouldn' miss me, kase dey'd shin out en take holiday soon as de ole folks 'uz out'n de way.
"Here dey mak' breakfas' 'bout daylight," said he. "Dey go slower as us." "But they're going pretty fast, for all that. We'll never get them this side of Forty Mile." "You don' spec' it, do you? Dey got beeg scare, dem feller. Dey runnin' so fas' dey can."
"Whew-shk! but my stomick have got a breakfas' notice," interrupted Dr. Chubb. He and the Byrd had come into the room as hungry as ravening wolves. While Mammy stirred and shoveled off ashes I fed all three men to the point of utter repletion, feeding myself from Sam's plate as I brought the food back and forth.
"'Scuse me, Marse Kenneth, but dem is hawthorn trees," said Zachariah, grinning. "So they are, so they are. Now that I come to think of it, it was the red-haw that Eve fancied more than any other fruit in the garden." "Yas, suh, an' ole Adam he was powerful fond ob snappin'-turtles fo' breakfas'," said Zachariah, pointing to a tortoise creeping slowly along the ditch.
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