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Updated: May 29, 2025
Them goods we've got below is worth a cool hundred thousand dollars in Newbern, if they're worth anything, and my commission will be somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty-five per cent.; dog-gone it all. Can't we do nothing to give her the slip? You ain't fitten to be a mate if you can't give a word of advice in a case like this."
DES TER BE WHITE! Don' min' dem black, black niggers dar don' think er DEM dey ain't wuth nothin' nor fitten fo' no fate but what dey got But me! What's done kep' me from gwine ter de top but dat one thing: I WASN'T WHITE! Hit air too late now too late fo' dem ambitions I done trifle with an' shove behin' me hit's too late fo' dat!
Some of our fellers told him he was so thin he oughtn't be rid in the day ought to keep him fur the dark; called him a sort of night mare. But he tuck it good natured an' jest kep' on a chawin' o' his tobacker. Then atter a while he lows that mebby some good brother mout like to swap with him, an' ever'body laughed fitten to kill. Then he said mebby they mout like to swop saddles.
It's mercifuler to you that way, ma'am." "What do you mean?" said Mary Warren. She caught emotion in this man's voice. "Whatever can you mean?" "Well," said Sim Gage, "take me like I am, setting right here, I ain't fitten to be setting here. But I don't want you to see. I got that advantage of you, ma'am. I can see you, ma'am"; and he undertook a laugh which made a wretched failure.
I'm going to stay with you till I'm fit to go, and then you're going to stay with me the rest of my life." "Am I fit to go with her?" Brick appealed to Bill Atkins. "You ain't," Bill replied. "I ain't fit," Brick declared firmly. "I'm a-going to fitten you; but it's too late to work on me; and besides, if they WAS time enough, it ain't to the grain of my nature.
"It's done ruint," he replied, "you'll hafter th'ow it away; 't ain't fitten fer nothin. I done cried 'bout a bucketful in it." "Why did you cry?" asked Miss Minerva calmly. "Don't you like to work?" "Yes 'm, I jes' loves to work; I wish I had time to work all the time. But it makes my belly ache to churn, I got a awful pain right now." "Churn on!" she commanded unsympathetically.
Can't run so mighty brisk, you know, bein' old an' sorter rheumatic, but she done the best she could. I seed a old feller a runnin' once, an' I says " "But here," Jasper broke in, "ain't she old enough to know better'n to run fitten to kill herse'f?" "Yes, suh, but she had to run on this here occasion. She was a gittin' outen the way." "Outen the way of what?"
'Course, all kinked up that way, he warn't fitten for a deligate, and Colonel Bud Crittenden had to ship him home. "I heard tell afterwards that going back on the steam cars the conductor told Breck he didn't care if he was a contortionist, he couldn't practise none of his didoes on that there train. "So there we was, each side shy one vote and still tied 52 and 52.
Charley was out of humour, and found the meat cold. "Damn yore soul, Nell," he cried, "this yere ain't fitten fer a hog to eat!" The girl did not mind; nor did Billy. It was the country's mode of speech. The stranger dropped his knife. "I don't wonder you don't like it, then," said he, with a funny little blaze of anger. "Meanin' what?" shouted Charley, threateningly.
"Wa'al" he made another effort "Tobe, we war jes sayin', ain't fitten fur ter be ranger o' the county. He be ez peart in gittin' ter own other folkses' stray cattle ez he war in courtin' other folkses' sweetheart, an', ef the truth mus' be knowed, in marryin' her." He suddenly twisted round, in some danger of falling from his perch.
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