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Guffern, "as naked as you please, while all the quality was dressed just as you and I be, Mrs. Greenacre." "Drat their impudence," said Mrs. Greenacre, from whose well-covered bosom all milk of human kindness was receding, as far as the family of the Lookalofts were concerned. "So says I," said Mrs. Guffern; "and so says my goodman, Thomas Guffern, when he hear'd it.
"Then it's all up with him!" said Bumpus; "and the pirate will meet his doom, as I once hear'd a feller say in a play though I little thought to see it acted in reality." "So he will," added Dick Price. Corrie's countenance fell, and Alice grew pale. Even Poopy and Toozle looked a little depressed. "No, it is not all up with him," cried Henry Stuart, energetically.
But de war end 'fore dey call dat list. "Mistis didn' have nobody to he'p her endurin' de war. She had to do de bes' she could. "When she hear'd de Niggers talkin' 'bout bein' free, she wore 'em out wid a cowhide. She warnt a pow'ful-built woman, neither. She had to do it herse'f, 'cause twant nobody to do it for 'er. Dey warnt nothin' a Nigger could do but stan' up an' take it.
She made me submit. I caught de feathers, don't you forgit it. "I didn' know it was wrong. I'd hear'd de Niggers sing it an' I didn' know dey was a-singin' in dey sleeves. I didn' know nothin' 'bout Abe Lincoln, but I hear'd he was a-tryin' to free de Niggers an' my mammy say she want to be free. "De young folks used to make up a heap o' songs, den.
Dat were not de reason, but dey was blood 'fore folks' eyes by dat time. "'It got worse dat Satu'd'y when Mr. Gully were buried. Folks all over Kemper done hear'd 'bout it by now, an' by nine o'clock Sund'y mornin', people were a-comin' in over ever' road dat led to DeKalb. Dey all had loaded guns.
I hear'd tell of 'em whuppin' folks, but I don't know nothin' 'bout it, much. "Mos' all de Niggers dat had good owners stayed wid 'em, but de others lef'. Some of 'em come back an' some didn'. "I hear'd a heap o' talk 'bout ever' Nigger gittin forty acres an' a mule. Dey had us fooled up 'bout it, but I never seen nobody git nothin'. "I hope dey won't be no more war in my time.
Then I thought I know'd how 'twas: Mrs. Gaarge, she'd a been to see Mrs. Durk in the village, and Mrs. Durk she were coming out a leetel way with her, so far as the stepping-stones, and they wur just having a last leetel talk before saying Good night. But mind, I hear'd no talking when I passed 'n. An' I'd hardly got past 'n before I says, Why, what a fool be I! Mrs.
"When de war was over my mammy an' pappy an' us five chillun travelled here to Port Gibson to live. My mammy hired out for washin'. I don't know zackly what my pappy done. "Lincoln was de man dat sot us free. I don't recollec' much 'bout 'im 'ceptin' what I hear'd in de Big House 'bout Lincoln doin' dis an' Lincoln doin' dat. "Lawdy! I sho' was happy when I was a slave.
Perhaps he wondered why Mitchell gripped his hand so hard and wished him luck so earnestly, and was surprised when he gave him three cheers. "Ah, well!" remarked Mitchell, as we turned up the wharf. "I've heerd of such cases before," said the Oracle, meditatively. "They ain't common, but I've hear'd of such cases before." A Daughter of Maoriland A sketch of poor-class Maoris
"Och! the fact is, that when I corned here I fortunately fell in with the owner first, and we spoke almost intirely in Irish, so nobody understood where I corned from; and the interpreter hear'd the master call me by my name; so he wint off and said to the people that a great Barono Flanagoni had come, and was up at the house wid the master.
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