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Then, on t'other hand, she'd axed for Major Axel, and the major, ez everybody know'd, was well, he wasn't 'xactly a saint. Besides, as the major hedn't come to Happy Rest, nohow, it looked ez if he was dodgin' her for somethin'. Where was she stopping? up to Old Psalmsinger's. Old Psalm bed turned himself out of house an' home, and bought her a new tea-kettle to boot.
"Funny now, I speck," said the old man, "but 'tweren't funny in dem days, en 'twouldn't be funny now ef folks know'd much 'bout de Bull-frog langwidge ez dey useter. Dat's w'at."
Oughter see how old Mas'r made the flesh fly; old Mas'r know'd how!" Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing. "Law, you niggers," she would say to some of her auditors, "does you know you 's all sinners? Well, you is everybody is.
After he had turned the corner of the street, as above mentioned, Bobby trotted on for a short space, and then, coming to a full stop, executed a few steps of the minstrel dance, at the end of which he brought his foot down with tremendous emphasis on the pavement, and said "Yes, I've bin an' done it. I know'd I was game for a good deal, but I did not think I was up to that.
''Cause, massa, I know'd you'd jaw; you tole me I wears 'em out mighty fass. 'Well, you do, that's a fact; but go to Madam and get a pair; and you, June, you've been a decent nigger, you can ask for a dress for Rosey. How is little June? 'Mighty pore, massa; de ma'am war dar lass night and dis mornin', and she reckun'd he's gwine to gwo sartain. 'Sorry to hear that, said the Colonel.
"Oh!" said she, "you're goin' right to Miss Tucker's, a'n't ye? got to drop the turkeys; won't you tell Miss Tucker 't George is comin' home tomorrer, an' he's ben to Californy. She know'd us allers, and Melindy 'n' George used ter be dre'ful thick 'fore he went off, a good spell back, when they was nigh about childern; so I guess you'd better tell 'em."
'Oh, you didn't listen as they did, pointing his thumb towards the Wynns, 'when I fell to talkin' of the ground. I know'd my men at once. Nor you didn't stare about as they did, as if the house and fixins was a show at a copper ahead. 'You must excuse our curiosity, said Robert politely. 'Surely; every man that has eyes is welcome to use 'em, replied the backwoodsman bluntly.
"This girl went ridin' with Jack Purdy he borrowed the side-saddle from Cinnabar " "Did Cinnabar loan him that saddle fer any such ?" "Hold on, now, Cinnabar don't know nothin' about it. Purdy wants to borrow his side-saddle an' Joe says sure." "He might of know'd if Purdy wanted it, it wasn't fer no good. You're all bad enough, goodness knows, but he was the worst of the lot.
"My Marster was layin' on the rug before the fireplace, and his knees was all drawed up. His right arm, was stretched out, so and his left hand was all doubled up. I know'd he was dead, before I tetched him, for his face was set; and pinched and blue.
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