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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I was taught how to work 'round de house, how to sweep an' draw water frum de well an' how to kin'le fires an' keep de wood box filled wid wood, but I was crazy to larn how to plow an' when I could I would slip off an' get a old black man to let me walk by his side an' hold de lines an' I thought I was big 'nouf to plow. "Marse Murry didn' have no overseer.
She sighed, and added, "Besides, 'twould be more proper. We mustn't set people talking eh, Captain Hocken?" She appealed to him with a laugh. "Cai won't be here," announced 'Bias heavily. "Who said so?" demanded Cai. "'Said so yourself, not twenty minutes ago. . . . 'Said you didn' know how the fireworks was ever goin' off without you, or words to that effect. I didn' make no comment at the time.
"I don't take ye, Mister " "Long Oliver, I'm called in common. Maybe you remembers me?" "Why, to be sure! I thought I minded your face. But still I don't take your meanin' azactly." "I didn' suppose you would. So I'm goin' to tell 'ee. Fourteen year' back I courted Naomi, an' she used me worse 'n a dog. Twelve year' back she married you.
I doan b'lieve my marster ever went to church in his life, but he wa'nt mean to his niggers, 'cept fer doin' things he doan 'low us to. He didn' care fer nothin' 'cept farmin'. "Dere wa'nt no schools fer cullud people den. We didn' know whut a school was. I never did learn to read. "We didn' have no mattresses on our beds like we has now. De chullun slep' under de big high beds, on sacks.
"No stop a minute take that blessed latherin'-brush out o' my mouth! You don't tell me old Bosenna's dead, up there?" "It didn' altogether surprise most of us when it happened," said the barber philosophically.
"Marse Chan he didn' speak fur a minit, an' den he said: 'Who is with you? Dat wuz ev'y wud. "'No one, sez she; 'I came alone. "'My God! sez he, 'you didn' come all through those woods by yourse'f at this time o' night?
I didn' feel like gwine ter prayer-meetin', so I went roun' ter see Solomon Williams, an' he wa'n't home, an' den I walk' down street an' met Josh Green, an' he ax' me inter Sam Taylor's place, an' I sot roun' dere wid Josh till 'bout 'leven o'clock, w'en I sta'ted back home.
Elbridge stopped a minute to think, after Abel had finished. "Who's took care o' them things that was on the hoss?" he said, gravely. "Waäl, Langden, he seemed to kin' o' think I'd ought to have 'em, 'n' the Squire, he didn' seem to have no 'bjection; 'n' so, waäl, I cal'late I sh'll jes' holt on to 'em myself; they a'n't good f'r much, but they're cur'ous t' keep t' look at." Mr.
"'I didn' mean no harm by sleep'n in de barn las' night, Marse Dugal', sez 'e, 'en' ef yer'll let me off dis time, I won' nebber do so no mo'.
"Yestiddy," observed the section-boss, as he unfastened the tugs, "y' said it wouldn' matter ef Ah didn' go now." He was somewhat complacent over the outcome of the hitch-up. "I don't feel that way now," asserted Dallas. "Thet ol' man up at th' leetle ben' has hosses," he volunteered when they were again within the shack. "He took 'em to Clark's two months ago, and walked back."
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