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They all sat down on the steps nearest below me, and presently, beginning where I had begun with Sidney, I went on to point out the polar constellations and to relate the age-worn story of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, Andromeda and the divine Perseus. "Lawd, my Lawd !" whispered the mother, "was dey was dey colo'd?" I said two of them were king and queen of Ethiopia, and a third was their daughter.
"Oom huh; fou' yeahs is a mighty long time fu' a colo'd man to wait; but we'n he do wait dat long, hit's all de wuss we'n hit do come." "Pap bin wo'kin right stiddy at de brick-ya'd," said Patsy, in loyal defence against some vaguely implied accusation, "an' he done put some money in de bank." "Bad sign, bad sign," and Mrs. Gibson gave her head a fearsome shake.
"It sho' am de strangest t'ing, Massa Jack, ebber I prognosticated. I was jest comin' roun' de corner ob Sheeny Joe's shebang, back dar by de blacksmith shop, when de Lawd save me! yere come ol' Massa Waite, a ridin' 'long on a cream colo'd pinto just as much alibe as ebber he was.
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