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One o' these yer dat will get all der niggers to feelin' bused, if Masir don't watch him!" said Sambo. "Hey-dey! The black cuss!" said Legree. "He'll have to get a breakin' in, won't he, boys?" Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation. "Ay, ay! Let Mas'r Legree alone, for breakin' in! De debil heself couldn't beat Mas'r at dat!" said Quimbo.
Ye said the Lord took sides against us, because he lets us be 'bused and knocked round; but ye see what come on his own Son, the blessed Lord of Glory, wan't he allays poor? and have we, any on us, yet come so low as he come? The Lord han't forgot us, I'm sartin' o' that ar'. If we suffer with him, we shall also reign, Scripture says; but, if we deny Him, he also will deny us.
He wasn't my gran'pa, though; if he had 'a' been he wouldn't 'a' 'bused me so. I don't know where he got me, but he treated me very bad; an' when I wouldn't do bad things for him, he whipped me, he whipped me awful, an' he shet me up in the dark all day an' all night, 'an didn't give me nothin' to eat; an' I'm dreadful 'fraid o' the dark; an' I wasn't more'n jest about so high, neither.
"Such a cunning little pearl!" remarked Prudy, still admiring the ring; "how glad I should be if you'd wish it on to my finger, Dotty!" "They 'bused me, Prudy Parlin, and you know it." "Only till night, Dotty Dimple. Just wish it on till night." "Well, there," exclaimed Dotty, at last; "hold out your finger if you can't stop teasing.
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