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Updated: July 15, 2025
""Dan," says the ring master when we're in the dressin' room, "when the leapin' begins, you-all go on with the others an' do a somersault or two?" ""Shore!" I says. "'I feels as confidant as a kangaroo! Which I never does try it none; but I supposes that all you has to do is hit the springboard an' let the springboard do the rest. That's where I'm barkin' at a knot!
Lor'! when my young mars' brung his bride over from Orleans dat chile didn't have a gownd in her trunk dat warn't made of Injy silk; an' she did look han'some a-trailin' round in 'em. An' you tell me I donno what fine dressin' is! Go 'long, chile! you've lost your manners."
W'en I wuz sold ter marster Simpkins, mah second mistress made me a house slave en I wuked only at de big house en mah wuk wus ter nuss en dress de chilluns en he'ps mah missis in her dressin'. De young slaves wuz hired out ter nuss de white chilluns. I wuz hired as nuss girl at seven y'ars ole en started cookin' at ten. I nebber had a chance ter go ter schul.
"Don't you want a cup o' tea?" she asked. Sophy looked quite eager. It seemed to her that, with the garden resurrected, something was going to happen. Jim shook his head. "I'll dig round them rose-bushes," said he. "Then I'll go an' git some dressin'." "I'll pay for it," said Sophy. "You sha'n't have that to do." "It's no consequence," returned Jim indifferently.
"Oh," she said, "don't ye tell 'em don't I I'm Dusk Dunbar." Then, as was very natural, he became curious and possibly did smile a very little. "What in the name of all that is fantastic are you doing?" She made an effort at being defiant and succeeded pretty well. "I wasn't doin' no harm," she said. "I was dressin' up a bit. It aint nobody's business." "That's true," he answered coolly.
Mason, sir, an hour ago, after he had attended Tom Grogan. He was on his way to Quarantine in his buggy. He said he left her insensible after dressin' the wound. He thought she might not live till mornin'." "May I ask your name, sir?" asked the president in a courteous tone. "Peter Lathers. I am yardmaster at the U. S. Lighthouse Depot."
Don't stop to argue, man; I say I'll take it. "And he did take it by main strength, pretty nigh. Every time I'd open my mouth he'd shut it up, and at last I give in, and showed him where he could sleep. "'You turn out at five sharp, I told him. 'And you needn't bother to write no poems while you're dressin', neither. "'Good night, he answers, brisk. 'Go, will you, please? I want to think.
"Ha! You kept your eye on those gentry, colonel, I bet you did?" "Yes, sir. They were the first I spotted when the row began; but I'm anticipating matters." "The divvle a bit, sor," interposed Garry O'Neil. "Let me jist change the dressin' of your leg, an' ye can polish off the rist of the rascals as soon as ye plaize."
"She must have made some new friends," said Katy. "About four o'clock, the biggest car that ever roared down this street rolled up, and the biggest man and woman that I ever see came puffin' and pantin' in. Miss Eileen did not tell me where she was goin' or when she would be back, but I know it won't be the night, because she took her little dressin' case with her.
"I could put on my dressin' gown and belt it down with the tossels and appear as a singer, and sing a silo."
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