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"Oh, nicely, papa!" she cried, clapping her hands with delight, "it was very good of you to think of all that." "De slippers is come, darlin'; Bill, he fotched 'em from de city dis afternoon," remarked Chloe, as she was preparing her little charge for bed that night. "Oh, have they, mammy? let me see them!" was Elsie's eager exclamation.
When Samson opened it he saw in the moonlight a young colored man and woman standing near the door-step. "Is dis Mistah Traylor?" the young man asked. "It is," said Samson. "What can I do for you?" "Mas'r, de good Lord done fotched us here to ask you fo' help," said the negro. "We be nigh wone out with cold an' hungah, suh, 'deed we be."
Sneed's critter bein' gone too mought make folks lay it ter ye fur sure," persisted Hite. "I ain't seen Mr. Sneed's horse. Mr. Sneed ye wouldn't b'lieve it ter look at him, but he's a ransomed saint! ha! ha! The money fur him will be fotched hyar ter yer still. I sent fur it ter kem by Jake Glenn; he knows ye, an' ye know him." Con Hite's open brow did not cloud.
A man, red-faced and with the devil of the cup of trembling peering from under his shaggy eyebrows, rose unsteadily from his seat on the bench nearest the door. "'Sh! he's fotched Tike Bryerson!" flew the whisper from lip to ear; but the man with the trembling madness in his eyes was backing toward the door.
"I'll tell you about that next summer; but we only borrowed them for a couple of days. He is badly wounded I heard." "Yes, sar; fotched home on a stretcher from Monticello, whar he com'd wid de army." "Why didn't he come down to Newberry along with the army?" asked Life, who knew precisely where he was when Monticello was mentioned.
Presently Thad, mechanically examining a bridle which he held in his hand, began again in an appealing tone: "'Pears like ter me ez the filly air toler'ble well bruk ter the saddle, an' she would holp me powerful ter git thar quicker ter tell dad 'bout'n that thar word ez war fotched up the mounting.
'Bout de time you gits done dat de hot cakes and toast and tea'll be fotched up from de kitchen." With that she turned and left the room. The sisters stood for a moment gazing in a bewildered way each into the other's face. Not one word had they understood; but the gestures had been more intelligible.
"I only fotched ober de one pair, massa," replied Cyd, with an exceedingly troubled expression. "Cyd, you are a fool!" "Yes, Massa Archy," answered the black boy, who seemed to be perfectly willing to grant the position.
"On dis plantation dere was 'bout a hunnerd head; cookin' was done in de fireplace in iron pots and de meals was plenty of peas, greens, cornbread burnt co'n for coffee often de marster bought some coffee fur us; we got water frum de open well. Jes 'fore de big gun fiahed dey fotched my pa frum de bay whar he was makin' salt; he had heerd dam say 'de Yankees is coming and wuz so glad."
Again the pistol cracked, and the unerring ball drove the small fragment into a thousand splinters. "That fotched 'um!" exclaimed Tim, who had come up to announce all ready. Well, not to make a short story long, we got under way again, and, with speed unabated, spanked along at full twelve miles an hour for five miles farther.
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