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Updated: May 8, 2025
"I kyan't git up; I'se all scalded and cut," she sobbed, "an' if I does get up I'se gwine to get whipped for breaking the pitcher," and at the thought of new trouble in store for her, she began to scream again. "Get up this minute," said Sylvia. "I don't believe the water was hot enough to scald you; it never is really hot.
The people in the Pullman car, who were much more comfortably situated than those in the smoking car, or than the crew of the train hived up in the first baggage coach, were beginning to complain a good deal now. The colored porter, with rolling eyes and appealing gestures, met the conductor and the two girls. "Ah kyan't stan' this no longer, Mistah Ca'tah," he almost sobbed.
"Seems ter me I could ha' gone an' been back by now. An' hi guy! there's four sacks o' flour to take acrost the river to Tim Lakeby an' I kyan't do it by meself Ben knows that. Takes two' on us ter handle thet punt 'ith the river runnin' like she is right now." The girl who had last spoken folded the work in her lap and got up agilely.
"Da's sumpin' got t' be did fo' all dese starbin white ladies an' gemmen ya-as sah! Dey is jes' about drivin' me mad. I kyan't stan' it." "What can't you stand, Nicodemus?" demanded Mr. Carter, good-naturedly. "Dey is a-groanin' an' a-takin' on powerful bad 'cause dey ain't no dining kyar cotched up wid us yet." "Dining car caught up with us?" gasped Nan and Bess together.
"You'd forget your head, Carey, if it wasn't screwed on tight," declared the ranchman, without glancing at the big figure slouching in the doorway. "Dan and his bunch light out for Beller's Gulch come mornin'." A little later it was a lighter step, and the jingle of spurs on the veranda floor. "Tumbleweed done sprung his knee, Mist' Ham-mon'. Kyan't use him nohow fo' a while."
The dark eyes were suddenly flooded and the tears ran down the negro woman's plump cheeks. She was not wrinkled, and if her tight, kinky hair was a mite gray, she did not have the appearance of an old person in any way. Her voice was round, and sweet, and tender. "You don' know me, honey. You kyan't 'member Mammy Blanche.
Look yere, Doctor, why kyan't I be tole over en over till I reckerlect it all?" "Well, we'll see, Captain. It's late now, and we must all have a rest. Stay here till I come for you." Nichol was so pleased with his photograph that he was well content in its contemplation. The physician now gave his attention to Helen, who was soon so far restored as to comprehend her utter failure.
'Yo's a fast brack, an' dat's all dere is to hit. Ef all de watah an' soap yo' done use ain't take no particle of dat soot off'n yo' yit, dere ain't nottin' eber will remove it. "But yo' kyan't change a gal's natur. Pechunia done break her back ober de washtub ter earn de money to buy some o' dem make-up stuff, an' she goes down ter de drug sto' ter mak' her purchases.
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