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"Hark ye, cuffee; go bring out the pedler's horse, saddle him with my saddle which lies in the gallery, bring him to the tree, and, look ye, make no noise about it, you scoundrel, as you value your ears."
This second cry had been drawn from the kind-hearted negro, by seeing, at a distance in the water a smooth-shooting streak, which an inexperienced eye would not have noticed, but which Sambo and Cuffee knew full well. It was the wake of a shark.
As each field became stripped, stock would be turned in to feast upon the peas and pumpkins. With winter came that period of bliss to the soul of Cuffee, namely, the hog-killing, when even the smallest urchin might revel in grease and fresh meat.
The punishment was terrible. Quack and Cuffee, the first to be executed, were burned at the stake on May 30. All through the summer the trials and the executions continued, harassing New York and indeed the whole country. Altogether twenty white persons were arrested; four Hughson, his wife, Peggy, and Ury were executed, and some of their acquaintances were forced to leave the province.
I have stated that my father had fifteen children four boys and three girls by his first wife, and six boys and two girls by his second. Their names are as follows: Toney, Azerine, Duke and Dezine, of the girls, Violet, Priscilla and Lydia; those of the second wife as follows: Footy, Embrus, Caleb, Mitchell, Cuffee, and Jacob, who is the author, and the girls, Catherine and Retta.
He's Jim Cuffee, nigger cook, sick with enteric fever, not to be disturbed." Rainey stared. It was a clever device, if Tamada could carry it out, and he bear his own part in the masquerade. The willingness of Tamada to risk the disguise was assurance of his fidelity. "Lund should have told me," he said. "I've got to change his name on the papers.
I mean to question 'Cuffee' on the subject," and he beckoned to John, who was passing at no great distance. "Sambo," said he, as the negro approached, "who is that young lady using the broom-handle so vigorously?" and he pointed to Maude, who was finishing her domestic duties by brushing the crumbs from the carpet.
"Now, dar, Tom's down wal, course der's room for some nigger to be up and why not dis nigger? dat's de idee. Tom, a ridin' round de country boots blacked pass in his pocket all grand as Cuffee but who he? Now, why shouldn't Sam? dat's what I want to know." "Halloo, Sam O Sam! Mas'r wants you to cotch Bill and Jerry," said Andy, cutting short Sam's soliloquy. "High! what's afoot now, young un?"
The words were scarcely uttered, and, even if they were heard, had not time to produce their effect, when Cuffee responded to the exclamation of his sable colleague, with "Oh, Madre de Dios! see, see, de tiburon! de shark! ah, San Salvador! ah, pobre joven! matar, todo comer, he eat him all down, berry soon!"
As simple hanging was soon thought not sufficient punishment, and they were left to swing, and slowly rot in chains, so this last was at length thought to be too lenient, and the convicts were condemned to be burned at the stake. Two negroes, named Quack and Cuffee, were the first doomed to this horrible death. The announcement of this sentence created the greatest excitement.
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