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"Tank you, massa; den you ken take down de bill, I ain't no longer to let I'm on, yah, yah!" shouted Snowball, giving way to the most obstreperous merriment, in order to testify his satisfaction at Mr Lathrope's engaging him in his service, the darkey having always had a hankering after the American from his thorough appreciation of his cookery. Mrs Major Negus was true to the last.
The overseer being away in the field and his cabin unlocked, it was a matter of no difficulty for the darkey to rummage his bureau drawers until he found the object of which he was in search. Whether or not Hanson ever discovered that he had been robbed of the "charm" that gave him such power over Julius, Jack never knew.
Ashby re-entered the silent house, went upstairs to Beverly's deserted room, dropped into a chair beside her bed and burying her head in the tumbled pillow wept like a girl. A moment later Mammy Riah entered the room, caught sight of the weeper, grabbed up an old muddy shoe of Beverly's and raining tears into it forthwith raised a genuine darkey wail of woe which very nearly turned Mrs.
I'll tell my missus what's gwine on down here," added the servant, as he moved towards the door. "See here, Blackee," interposed Tom, pointing his pistol at the negro; "if you move, I'll put one of these balls through your skull." "De Lud sabe us, massa! Don't shoot dis nigger, massa." "Hold your tongue then, and mind what I say." "Yes, massa," whined the darkey, in the most abject tones.
He looked as much like you as I look like that young darkey, Bo Peep, up at the Jacobs House." "None of my belongings. You are a delicate plant to be so sensitive to strangers." Jim sighed from mental weariness more than from physical weakness. "I was sensitive, and when I heard Stewart call out your name in the mail and saw this man step up as if to take the letter, I took it.
Harrington's French boots, which that lady was not likely to miss before morning; and had sprained her ankle in the process, a very unpleasant situation for a modest and churchgoing darkey to find herself in, late at night, and her lover looking on. "Be yer gwine to lay dar all night!" asked Vic. "I kin't get up, I tell yer," said Clo. "Is yer bones broke?" "Smashed.
As they clustered in a group under an old magazine picture of a darkey with a fiddle in his hand there was an unexpected sound just outside the door, and the big room grew suddenly darker. The four girls turned simultaneously. The heavy door through which they had entered the cabin, and which was the only entrance, had been shut fast.
"This is ther widder of Dan Wright," answered the policeman; "an' ef Wilmin'ton had er had a hundred niggers like that, we uns would er had er diff'ant tale ter tell. He was ded game." "Dan Wright," repeated the Mayor slowly. "He's ther darkey that drawed er bead on an' defied we uns ter the las'," said the policeman pushing the woman away, and pushing another up to the desk.
I sung out, and the boys come back for me, double quick; but the way they chucked me over them fences was a caution, I tell you. Next day I was most as black as that darkey yonder, lickin' plates on the sly. This is bully coffee, ain't it? Give us another pull at it, and I'll be obleeged to you."
" 'I am changing you into a black cat, I replied, 'but don't be afraid; I will change you back again, if I don't forget the words to do it with. "This was too much for the terrified darkey; with an awful screech he rushed to the side of the boat resolved to drown rather than undergo such a transformation.
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