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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Marse Sykes, he sez I gits eight dollahs a month, myself, an' Sally she gits fo'; an' den we hez tree pounds o' meat apiece an' a peck o' meal, each on us, ebbery week.
"Who you t'ink out-dere?" asked Pliny the elder of his consort, with a very significant look. "How you t'ink guess, ole Plin? You 'spose nigger wench like Albonny wise woman, dat she see t'rough a gate, and know ebbery t'ing, and little more!" "Well, dat Sassy Nick. What you say now?" "You sartain, ole Plin?" asked Mistress Smash, with a face ominous of evil. "Sartain as ear.
"Me Haggis ben Hamed at your sarvice, Senor Capitan," he answered, making a salaam; "me undertake show where you find all the slaves on the coast, and ebbery big ship and dhow that sails." "And what payment do you expect for rendering us these services?" asked Murray. "Forty pesados for one month, sar; eighty, if I take one dhow; and hundred and sixty, if I help you to one big ship."
"De brack man's gittin' awful rich The people seems ter fear, Alt'ough he 'pears to git in debt A little ebbery year. Ob co'se he gits de biggest kind Ob wages ebbery day, But when he comes to settle up Dey dwindles all away. "Den jes fork up de little tax Dat's laid upon de poll. It's jes de tax de state exac's Fer habben ob a soul!"
The latter met the almost bewildered gaze of the major with a smile of grim triumph, as he pointed to the three bodies of the beloved ones, and said "See all got scalp! Deat', nothin' scalp, ebbery t'ing." We shall not attempt to describe the outbreaking of anguish from the husband and brother.
An' ef de Ku Klux comes, I's jest a gwine ter kill de las' one I gits a chance at. Now, you min' what I say, Mister Dossey, kase I means ebbery word on't." The white man cowered before the other's energy. He was of that class who were once denominated "poor whites."
Me berry clebber fellow know most ebbery ting. Me hab doo'd good service to dis here country. Me can fight like one leopard, and me hab kill great few elephant and gorilla. Not much mans here hab shoot de gorilla, him sich terriferick beast; 'bove five foot six tall, and bigger round de breast dan you or me dat is a great true fact. Also, me can spok Englis'."
Dat's why he won't go fer nuffin 'ceptin' 'coons no rabbits, ner 'possum, ner fox, ner b'ar, ner nuffin jes 'coons. But 'coons! Don' talk, gen'l'men! I reckin dat ar Bijah done know ebbery 'coon in twenty mile ob de Moss Back plantashun. An' he knowed some fer 'coons wha' didn' 'low dey war 'coons no way." "What do you mean by that?" asked Winn.
Ebbery place on de green yairth, Marse Hesden, 'ceptin' dis one, whar dey hez ter shoe de goats fer ter help 'em climb de bluffs; an' please de Lo'd I'll be from h'yer jest es soon ez de train come's 'long dat's 'boun' fer de happy land of Canaan." "We shall have to stop over, dear," said Hesden to his wife. "There's no doing anything with Berry in the time we have between the trains.
"Here is some mistake!" interrupted the Alderman, throwing an uneasy glance at his young friend. "I count four-and-fifty years, and remember no such calamity." "He'm werry sing'lar how a young folk do forget! 'Ere war' drown six people in dat werry-boat. A two Yankee, a Canada Frenchman, and a poor woman from a Jarseys. Ebbery body war werry sorry for a poor woman from a Jarseys!"
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