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She sunk down an' down' til she was buried deep. Den de wind picked up de flame an' spread it lak lightenin'. It spread so fas' dat 'fore us could bat de eye, she was in a mountain of fiah. She struggled up all covered wid flames, a-screamin', Lawdy, he'p me! Us snatched her out an' rolled her on de groun', but twant no use. She died in a few minutes. "De marster's sons went to war.
Some of the words ran this way: "Aldo you sees me go 'long so, I has my trials here below, Sometimes I'se up, sometimes I'se down, Sometimes I'se lebel wid de groun; Oh, git out, Satan Hallalu!" And these words sound queer to you as you read them, perhaps, but they did not sound queer when Mammy Delphy was singing them.
"Yas'm, yas'm, comin' comin'," he answered, breaking into a trot for the rig, and climbing in by her side. "Come Jim, git! Yo' black villen, don' yo' know, dis here's er'mergency case? Yo' sho got to lay yo' laigs to de groun' dis night er yo' goin' to git left sartin! 'Mergency case!" he chuckled. "Dat mak him go, Miss. Funny I nebber knowed dat 'fore."
"Yes, mum! I jes' done see 'em! Dey's gwineter kill my Marse Harry!" Kate sprang up. "Where are they?" she cried, shivering with fear. The old man's face had told the story. "Out by de greenhouse dey was measurin' off de groun' dey's got de colonel's pistols you kin see 'em from de winder!" In an instant she had parted the heavy silk curtains and lifted the sash.
"What do you mean by that?" "I mean, you infernal skunk, that afore ye leave this groun', ye've got to make a clean breast o' it, an' clar me o' the crime o' murder." "What murder?" inquired Stebbins, prevaricatingly. "Oh! you know what I'm talkin' about! 'Twant no murder. 'Twar only a suicide; an' God knows it broke my own heart." Holt's voice was husky with emotion.
"W'en ole Brer Wolf got dar, w'ich he come er scootin', dar wuz Brer Rabbit hol'in' on ter de cow-tail, fer ter keep it fum gwine in de groun'. Brer Wolf, he kotch holt, en dey 'gin a pull er two en up come de tail. Den Brer Rabbit, he wink his off eye en say, sezee: "'Dar! de tail done pull out en de cow gone, sezee.
"That's the reason we'd like to know what's in it now. "Now you er gittin' on ma'shy groun'," replied Uncle Remus. "Dat's de p'int. Dat's w'at make me say w'at I duz. I bin knowin' dat jug now gwine on sixty-fi' year, an' de jug w'at's more seetful dan dat jug ain't on de topside er de worrul.
'She got 'em all laid out side by side in de buryin' groun' wid er little imige on ebry grabe; an', 'Sis Mary Ellen, seein' as she can't read de writin' on de tombstones, she got a diff'unt little animal asettin' on eb'ry head res' so's she kin tell which husban' am which.
Yes, the folks that squatted hyar hev been Ailikoleeps. But 'tain't no surprise to me, ez I heern some words pass 'mong the fishin' party, which show'd 'em to be thet same. Wal," he continues, more hopefully, "thar's one good thing: they haven't set fut on this groun' fur a long while, which air some airnest o' thar hevin' gi'n the place up fur good.
"We got ready, an' dropped down them pines so fast that we both hits groun' before the bear knows what's doin'. Then I leaves that tree like as if all the animals in the woods was after me. I got on so much speed that by the time I grabs the grub bag I was goin' so fast that I couldn't turn roun' without slackin' down.
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