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"Maybe she done gone back in de house ag'in!" suggested Dinah. "Maybe she hab; I go look; but stop, first let me look out'n de door to see if she went away," said Jovial, going to the door and holding the lantern down near the ground. "Yes, Dinah, 'oman, here day is; little foot-prints in de snow a-goin' away from de house an' almost covered up now! She done gone! Now don't dat beat eberything?
Den Mahs' Junius he come to de house, an' dar Miss Rob in de parlor waitin' fur him. I stood jes' outside de doh', so's to be out de way, but Mahs' Junius he kinder back agin de doh', an' shet it. But I clap'd my year ter de crack, an' I hear eberything dey said." "Wot dey say?" asked Aunt Judy, her mouth open, her eyes dilated, and the long ladle trembling in her hand.
"Jes' what I ses," replied she sharply; "I ain't one ob de kind dat tittervates up my words till dey haint got no sense left." "But I never heerd of a haunted tree," said Dolf, gaining new courage as he remembered that it was broad daylight. "Haunted houses I've heerd on in plenty; but a tree " "Oh, mebby yer don't know eberything yet!" said Clo, viciously.
As they came in sight of the home camp, Jerry broke out with: "Say, she looks some nice, with the two tents standing there, and old Toby working around." "Do you see Bluff?" asked Frank, a trifle uneasily. "Why, no, but what makes you say that?" "I've got a suspicion about him, that's all Hello, Toby, everything all right?" "Sho, Marse Frank, eberything am lubly an' de goose hangs high."
The negro struggled as the men approached him, and gave a terrific yell as the hot iron was applied to his sides. "I will tell you, sars oh! have mercy upon me and I will tell you eberything!" "I thought," Peter said grimly, "that you'd find a tongue soon enough. Now, then, who sent you?" "My massa," the negro answered. "And who is your master?"
'Cept de overseer, dere isn't a white man on de plantation, an' I hear he has to report ter-morrer or be treated as a deserter. An' der's nobody here to look arter Miss Mary an' de chillen, but myself, an' to see dat eberything goes right. I promised Marse Robert I would do it, an' I mus' be as good as my word." "Well, what should you keer?" said Tom Anderson.
Den I done eberything else that come to mind on de farm. I neber earned money in dem slave days. "Your general food wuz such as sweet potatoes, peas and turnip greens. Den we would jump out and ketch a coon or possum. We ate rabbits, squirrels, ground-hog and hog meat. We had fish, cat-fish and scale fish. Such things as greens, we boil dem. Fish we fry.
An' Jinny said, 'O Miss Nancy, I hope dey won't come yere. An' she said, 'I'se jis' 'fraid dey will come down yere and gobble up eberything dey can lay dere hands on. An' she jis' looked as ef her heart war mos' broke, an' den she went inter de house. An' when she war gone, we jis' broke loose.
"No, chillen, I've no objection to finishin' my story, but I ain't made up my mind to leave the place till Marse Robert gits back." "You were telling us about Marse Robert's mother. How did you get along after she died?" "Arter she war gone, ole Marster's folks come to look arter things. But eberything war lef' to Marse Robert, an' he wouldn't do widout me. Dat chile war allers at my heels.
"You remain here, Dan, and I will go and knock at the door. It is better that we should not be seen together." Vincent accordingly went forward and knocked at the door. An old negress opened it. "We have nothing for tramps," she said. "De house am pretty well cleared out ob eberything." She was about to shut the door when Vincent put his foot forward and prevented its closing.
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