Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 21, 2025
If dar's claimin' gwine on, I'se a gen'leman what's gwine to be on de camp-meetin' groun', an' fo'most 'mong de shouters." "What did ye lose by the war, Uncle Matt?" said a countryman, who was leaning against his market waggon of "produce" and chewing tobacco. "If ye kin hunt up suthin' ye lost, ye kin put in a claim fer the vally of it, an' mebbe get Government to give ye indemnity.
So atter dat dey did n' say nuffin mo' ter dey marster, but dey kep' on noticin' de mule's quare ways des de same. "'Long 'bout de middle er de summer dey wuz a big camp-meetin' broke out down on de Wim'l'ton Road, en nigh 'bout all de po' w'ite folks en free niggers in de settlement got 'ligion, en lo en behol'! 'mongs' 'em wuz de cunjuh man w'at own' de shote w'at cha'med Primus.
Bowers intimated that were she one of those odious persons who carried tales, which of course she was not, she could astonish the widow with a chronicle of happenings not remote in time or scene. But when told, the widow was not astonished. "I've knowed she wuz a Scarlet Woman since the last night ov the camp-meetin' at Eden Centre," she explained.
Squeezin' didn't count in them days, 'specially if the girls wanted to go to camp-meetin'. I cal'late we can fix it. You and me'll set on the front seat, and the rest in back. Elsie ain't a very big package, and Perez, he's sort of injy-rubber; he'll fit in 'most anywheres. Let's try it anyhow." And try it they did. While it was true that Elsie was rather small, Mrs.
Waal, Mill'cent an' a lot o' young fools o' her age little over fryin' size they 'tended camp-meetin' down hyar on Tomahawk Creek 'tain't so long ago along with the old folks. An' 'bout twenty went huddled up tergether in a road-wagin.
"'I know it and feel it, Mr Sam, said he, lookin' up in a way that nobody but him could look, 'but "'But what? sais I. "'Why, says he, 'but it don't do to say so, you know. "Jist then some of the neighbours came in, when he burst out wuss than before, and groaned like a thousand sinners at a camp-meetin'.
"Trut' is, none av us wuz in no great hurry Creed's woman havin' cashed his pay-check an' skipped out but at lasht we come to phwere we c'd see th' place, an' sure enough th' dure shtood open an' insoide come a racket av shmashin' furniture an' yellin' 'tw'd done proud to camp-meetin' salvation.
We will listen: "Feller coots and liquidarians, behold before ye a real descendant uv Cain and Abel. Ye'll reckolect, ef ye've ever bin ter camp-meetin', that Abel got knocked out o' time by his cuzzin Cain, an becawse Abel war misproperly named, and warn't able when the crysis arriv ter defen' himsel' in an able manner.
Every camp-meetin' for years I have thought would be my last, but bless Him who has preserved me to this day." "Yes, bless the Lord! Amen! amen!" wuz shouted on every side, and as he stopped after a few minutes' exhortation, the other ministers and some of the old bretheren crowded round the white headed old saint to shake his hand.
"Well, Methusaleh, where are you off to now?" and Lenox Hildreth leaned against a flower wreathed pillar in lazy amusement. "To camp-meetin', Mass Hildreff. I hez your permission, sah?" and the negro rolled his eyes with a ludicrous expression of humility. His master laughed with the easy indulgence which made his servants impose upon him. "You seem to have taken it, you rascal.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking