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Updated: May 6, 2025
Judging by the thumps and kicks and screams inside the closet the housekeeper's thoughts were otherwise engaged. "You let me out, Labe Ginn!" she screamed. "Cap'n Dott, you make him let me out!" Daniel, weary from laughing, could only gasp. "I can't, Zuba!" he answered, choking. "I can't! It ain't my affair. I couldn't interfere between husband and wife. You're a free woman, Zuba, you know.
I'll chop you up as fine as mince meat, you villain, said he, if ever I catch you inside my door agin; mind what I tell you, "YOU'LL SWING FOR IT YET." Well, he made himself considerable scarce arter that, he never sot foot inside the door agin, and I thought he had ginn up all hopes of Sall, and she of him; when one night, a most particular uncommon dark night, as I was a comin home from neighbor Dearborne's, I heerd some one a talkin under Sall's window.
I went to see her the day before the wedding, and she showed me all her clothes and ornaments; but I thought she did not look as if she cared for them. So I whispered, "Are you happy, child?" "No, not at all," burst out Quey Ginn. "I don't want to be married and leave my parents."
"Thought over that bill of fare, Zuby?" he shouted, after a time. More thumps and threats; tears as well. Daniel began to feel pity instead of triumph. "Hadn't you better, Labe," he began. Mr. Ginn waved him to silence. "How about supper, Zuby?" he called. "Oh, all right, all right. I don't know as I'm as hungry as I was, anyway. Appetite's kind of passin' off, I cal'late.
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