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Updated: July 2, 2025
I wonder ef de chillun 'll be too proud ter reco'nize deir daddy come back f'um de penetenchy? I 'spec' Billy must be a big boy by dis time. He won' b'lieve his daddy ever stole anything. I 'm gwine ter slip roun' an' s'prise 'em."
I want you to get to Canada!" "God bress yeh," she said. "I know'd yeh was a good young gemman as soon as I set eyes on yeh! I know'd yeh was quality!" "Who do you expect to meet in Canada?" asked Thatcher. "God willin'," said she, "I'm gwine to find Abe Felton, the pa of dese yere chillun."
She sez ef Ole Miss had gone up dar a-puttin' on airs 'case er her fifteen chillun, she wouldn't never have helt up 'er head no mo'. Mahaly, she ain' mah'ed no man, she ain't. She sez en ole maid in Philadelphy des' looks right spang over all de heads, she's so sot up." "'Tain' so yer," said Aunt Verbeny feelingly. "'Tain' so yer.
"Here we are," said Reuben, while Sam dismounted and began to take off the boxes. The front door opened and a fat negro woman, apparently startled by the arrival of the wagon, made her appearance, asking: "What de debbil all dis, chillun?" "Here are some books that are to be put into the library, Aunt Katie, and this young man is to unpack and arrange them," answered the overseer.
John, my son is sickly and not able to work and my daughter, Mamie has nine chillun to support. Her husband doesn't have steady work. The grandchillun are doin' pretty well. I think Abraham Lincoln was a fine man. It was put in his mind to free de colored people. Henry Logan, a colored man that lives near Bridgeport, Ohio is a great man. He is a deacon in de Mt. Zion Baptist church.
I never will forgit one song dey sung when dey buried anybody. It made Old Marster, Mistis, an' all of' em cry. Us chillun cried, too. It went like dis: 'My mother prayed in de wilderness, In de wilderness, In de wilderness. My mother prayed in de wilderness. An' den I'm a-goin' home. Chorus: Den I'm a-goin' home, Den I'm a-goin' home. We'll all make ready, Lawd, An' den I'm a-goin' home.
Der massa's name wuz David Bowers. I don't know where dey cum from but dey moved to Bad Creek after slavery days. Der wuz three of us chillun. Charles, de oldest, den Anthony next and den me, de youngest. I wuz workin' for a white man and wuz old enough to drive cows and work in de 'bacco fields, pickin' worms off de leaves. De other brudders worked wid my father on another plantation.
I was married by a Methodist preacher in Leesburg. I did not get drunk, but had plenty to drink. We had singin' and music. My sister was a religious woman and would not allow dancin'. I have fourteen chillun. Four boys are livin' and two girls. All are married. George, my oldest boy graduated from grade school and de next boy. I have 24 grandchillun and one great grandson.
Her large philosophy of life held that all human beings were "chillun," and "chillun was bound to act bad sometimes." She left others to struggle with Sandy's moral welfare and devoted herself to his physical comfort.
Aunt Barbara, I would not give you and your nostrums, such as 'Cider Berry Juice, 'Sweet Flag, 'Taters' 'Sugar Rags' and 'Black Jack' for all the doctors in Christendom." "Missus, I'm glad dat you tink so much ob me. I has always done de bes dat I could. You know dat de chillun on de plantashun was bad, but wid my Black Jack I always made dem have deyself."
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