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"I wish dar was room for 'belobed wife of Cunnel Crompton. I reckons, though, she wasn't 'belobed, or why was he so dogon mean to her?" he added, kneeling by the grave and picking a dead leaf and bud which his quick eye had detected amid the bloom. "Couldn't you done drap a tear 'case your mother is lyin' here?" he said to Amy, who shook her head.
Den Moye flogged him till he war 'most dead, and arter dat chained him up in de ole cabin and gabe him 'most nuffin' to eat. De Cunnel war gwine to take Sam to Charles'on and sell him, but sumhow he got a file and sawed fru de chain and got 'way in de night to de 'still. When de Oberseer cum dar in de mornin', Sam jump on him and 'most kill him.
I knowed my moder was on de verandy, an' I run to her, an' sho' 'nuff, dar she was stan'in' right in front of Missy S'wanee an' 'treating de missus an' de young ladies ter go in, fer de bullets was now flyin' tick. But dey wouldn't go in, an' Missy Roberta was wringin' her han's, an' cryin', 'Oh, dat I was a man! De cunnel, de oder ossifer, an' a lot ob our sogers wouldn't give back an inch.
"Oh Marse Cunnel, call me anyt'ing ef tain't so about de mare!" "Of course it isn't," said the Colonel happily. "I have found a jockey, Neb; a jockey." "Praise de Lawd!" cried the old negro. "One of the best," the Colonel went on, gaily. "Just come in from the from the east. I engaged him at once, so you get word to Frank. In five minutes we'll be on our way out to the track."
Lieutenant Davis, who had come with us from Andersonville, was also sitting on a horse inside the prison, and he called out in his usual harsh, disagreeable voice: "That's all right, Cunnel; the man's done just as I awdahed him to." I found that lying around inside were a number of bits of plank each about five feet long, which had been sawed off by the carpenters engaged in building the prison.
As soon as he saw the commander of the station approaching, he cleared the throng around him by a skip and a hop, seized the colonel by the hand, and doing the same with the soldier, before Boland could repel him, as he would have done, exclaimed, "Glad to see you, cunnel; same to you, strannger What's the news from Virginnie? Strannger, my name's Ralph Stackpole, and I'm a ring-tailed squealer!"
You have been at the North, and you know the blacks are as well off as the majority of the poor laboring men there. 'You say dat to me, Massa K ; you don't say it to de Cunnel. We are not so well off as de pore man at de Norf! You knows dat, sar. He hab his wife and children, and his own home; what hab we, sar? No wife, no children, no home; all am de white man's.
He suddenly rose from his half-finished breakfast. "Look-a-hyar, Cunnel," he cried, joyously, "don't ye want ter ride the filly? ye knew ye hanker ter ride the filly." Even then she tried to frown, but the bliss of the prospect overbore her.
Ah's go'n' a' go West to mek mah fo'chun. Well, seh, Ah was lookin' fo' a place to mek some fo'chun mahse'f fo mah folks, an' that theah Cincinnati didn't seem jes' th' raght place to set about it, so Ah sais, 'Thank yo' ve'y much, Mahstah Cunnel, an' Ah stays by him fo' a consid'ble length of time."
Many a race had he seen surreptitiously when he had not funds to buy admission to the track. He grinned, remembering talk which he had heard between the Colonel and Miss 'Lethe, and understanding, now. He laughed. "Oh, I yi!" he cried. "Marse Cunnel, dar ain't nobody'll git ahead of you!
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