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Updated: June 7, 2025
On t' odder han', Mistah Pres'dent, Mistah Tom Bannistah is er white man too, jes de same; but I kin say fo' Mistah Bannistah 'at he's mo' like er niggah an' any white man 'at I ebber seed afore!" Here the Colonel paused to wait for the shouting and the hat-throwing to subside. Meantime the face of old Barnaby was drawn into one indescribable pucker of amazement.
Wonder 'f I'll ebber git back from de 'Cad'my, an' ketch fish in dis yer bay. Sho! Course I will. But goin' 'way's awful!" Dab Kinzer thought he had never before known Jenny Walters to appear so well as she looked that evening; and he must have been right, for good Mrs. Foster said to Annie, "What a pleasant, kindly face your new friend has! You must ask her to come and see us.
When he had completed his scrutiny, he merely said: "Yes, massa, Jup climb any tree he ebber see in he life." "Then up with you as soon as possible, for it will soon be too dark to see what we are about." "How far mus' go up, massa?" inquired Jupiter. "Get up the main trunk first, and then I will tell you which way to go and here stop! take this beetle with you."
"What in the name heaven shall I do?" asked Legrand, seemingly in the greatest distress. "Do!" said I, glad of an opportunity to interpose a word, "why come home and go to bed. Come now! that's a fine fellow. It's getting late, and, besides, you remember your promise." "Jupiter," cried he, without heeding me in the least, "do you hear me?" "Yes, Massa Will, hear you ebber so plain."
Yah, yah, yah, Massa, you is foolin' dis here niggar now, I know you is when you say Joy is dead, and gone to Heaben, and dis child is shot out for ebber.
Mammy fervently exclaimed, lifting on high her hands, "and let all de earf gib t'anks unto His holy name fo' ebber an' ebber." The Colonel was greatly interested over Dane's departure, and asked him several questions. "I can tell you very little now," the young man replied. "That the rebels are up to some mischief is quite certain.
I make him go to church reglar den to show hisself and his bald pate. Yah, yah, yah!" "Come, Sorrow," I said, "I am tired of all this foolery; either tell me how you propose to cook the clams, or substitute something else in their place." "Well, Massa," he said, "I will; but railly now when I gits talkin' bout my dear ole missus, pears to me as if my tongue would run for ebber.
Yes! she has a lover, and what's me', she CAN'T HELP IT; and yo' 're her lover; and what's me', YO' can't help it either! And yo' can't back out of it now bo'fe of yo' nebber! Fo' yo' 're hers, and she's yo'rs fo' ebber. For she sucked yo' blood." "What!" gasped Courtland, aghast at what he believed to be the sudden insanity of the negress. "Yes!
"Will you be quiet, Pomp?" "Yes; Pomp be ebber so quiet. Wait till laugh at him." "Who goes there?" came from just ahead, out of the darkness. "Mass' George an' me," said Pomp, promptly. I hastened to give the word, and we were allowed to pass on, to be challenged again and again, till we reached the part of the palisade on the farther side of the block-house.
The next morning she sent for me, and she telled me she'd hev to send me away ef I didn't quit dat habit of bein' up so late and skeerin' de gals wid stories 'bout ghosts; so I jis' held my tongue." "And had you ebber seed anytink more?" "Laws, I wouldn't go near dat tree after dark for all de money on Long Island! I tells you dar's sometin' queer somewhar."
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