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Miss Clorindy," he said, "de sect is all resemblous in one particular." "What do yer mean?" inquired Clo, and her voice softened in response to the tenderness in his. "In yer cruelty," said Dolf, "yer cruelty, Miss Clorindy." "Laws, nobody ebber sed I was cruel," returned the matter-of-fact Clo.
"I don't know what he's made of. He's been at that tiller for twenty-three hours by the watch, in all sorts of weather, and never budged." "They don't make that kind of boy in India," replied Frank. "He's de bes' feller you ebber seen," added Dick Lee. "I's jes' proud ob him, I is!"
Joe was fully satisfied with this, and when the boat reached the other side, hurried off to find new admirers for this first piece of actual property he had ever owned, and to tell them that "Misto Frank March, who know all about oxes, say dis yere ok de han'somes' he ebber seed." Of course the Bevils and Carters came over to the picnic.
"I'se brought de cart, as you tole me, Caesar," he remarked. "Am it all right?" "It am, sar," remarked Caesar the hitherto unnamed negro loftily; "when did you ebber know me to fail in what I undertooken, eh, sar?" "Nebber, sah, nebber," answered Moses appreciatively. "An' so dat am de gebberlum, am it?" pointing at me with his chin, as I lay huddled up on the floor.
It is customary in the prison, after the Sunday exercises, for such as desire to remain and hold a sort of class meeting, or, as some call it, experience meeting. In one of these, an old colored man arose, and said: "Breddren, ebber since Ize been in dis prison Ize been tryin' to git de blessin'; Ize prayed God night and day.
"Dat werry well, if a do it," grumbled Cupid, who busied himself affectionately about the person of his master. "I think it alway better to travel on 'e land, when a gentle'um own so much as Masser Oloff Der war' 'e time a ferry-boat go down, wid crowd of people; and nobody ebber come up again to say how he feel."
"D' y' ebber yeh w'at de cya'ge-hoss say w'en 'e see de cyaht-hoss tu'n loose in de sem pawstu'e wid he, an' knowed dat some'ow de cyaht gotteh be haul'? W'y 'e jiz snawt an' kick up 'is heel'" she suited the action to the word "an' tah' roun' de fiel' an' prance up to de fence an' say: 'Whoopy! shoo! shoo! dis yeh country gittin' too free!"
"I vow," at last exclaimed Gladding, "if I don't believe you're afraid Basset will give you a licking." "Basset, nor no oder man, ebber see de day nor night to make me 'fraid," said the valorous General, whose natural courage was a little stimulated by the cider he had been drinking, starting up and preparing for his expedition.
"I don't know what dey ebber let sech poor white trash ez dat man git in er army for, anyhow!" he exclaimed indignantly. "We have to take 'em as they come now, Julius. There's going to be a draft this summer. No more volunteers now. Wait till you see the conscripts." "Dey can't be no wus dan dat man. He warn't no gemman 'tall, sah."
All the loyalty and pride of slavery days was in Neb. "He sho' am, Missus; dar ain't nuthin' higher in ol' Virginia dan de Keiths. Dey ain't got much money sence the Yankees come down dar, but dey's quality folks jest de same. I was done born on de ol' Co'nel's plantation, and I reck'n dar wan't no finer man ebber libed. He was done killed in de wah.
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