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"You all seem to have enough and to spare, Auntie," said Nan, who was an observant girl for her age. "Nobody here is really poor." "Not unless he's right down lazy," said her aunt, vigorously. "Then I should think they'd build a proper church and give a minister some more money, so that he could afford to have a Sunday School as well." "Lawsy me, Nan!" exclaimed her aunt.
Aunt Kate was the very kindest-hearted woman that ever lived; but she had little initiative herself about anything outside her own house. "Goodness knows, I'd like to see the kiddies gathered together on Sunday afternoon and taught good things," she signed; "but lawsy, Nan! I'm not the one to do it. I'm not good enough myself." "Didn't you teach Tom and Rafe, and and " Nan stopped.
Her confusion was increased by the tactless comment of the operator who, seeing her "full view" for the first time, exclaimed: "Lawsy, Missie, you couldn't shinny up no wall. You is too fat." Many suggestions were forthcoming, all of them impractical, and the already frayed nerves of the passengers began to show evidence of reaching the snapping point.
"Dat crazy cannibal," grumbled Rad, "got it in his haid dat he's gwine to he'p Massa Tom by walkin' out o' nights like he was dis here Western, de great sprinter, Ma lawsy me! Koku ain't got brains enough to fill up a hic'ry nut shell. Dat he ain't." Nothing anybody else could do for Tom ever satisfied Rad.
Everybody from Pattie and Buck down to little Bettie and Martin Luther! Won't it be lovely? I can show them just how to march, down the road with their baskets in their arms, and Mrs. Pratt, you can come from your house with the Deacon and Mr. Hoover can come out of the back of the store with with, who is going to be his groomsman?" "Lawsy me, I hadn't thought of that," answered the widow.
After having her picture taken she wanted to know what was to be done with it and when told it was to be sent to Columbus or maybe to Washington, D.C. she said "Lawsy me, if you had tol' me befo' I'd fixed up a bit." Folklore: Ex-Slaves Paulding Co., District 10 KISEY McKIMM Ex-Slave, 83 years
"T'ankee, suh," said Neb, reaching for the weed the Colonel now held toward him. "Lawsy, ain't dat jus' a whoppuh? Whah you-all git sech mon'sous big cigahs as dat?" "I'm only smoking half as many, now, so I get 'em double size," the Colonel answered, sighing but not wholly miserable. Neb did not see the humor of this detail. He was thinking of the race and of Queen Bess.
There was silence in the group when the match flame died out. It was finally the negro cook who made comment: "Lawsy me!" he groaned. "Ef I had only de faith of Peter I'd up an' walk ashore from dis here cussed schooner right now!"
"You ruin her!" The bluff young Captain put down his glass to laugh. "Ruin her!" he exclaimed. "Her pa don't ruin her I eh, Ephum? Her pa don't ruin her!" "Lawsy, Marse Lige, I reckon he's wuss'n any." "Ephum," said the Colonel, pulling his goatee thoughtfully, "you're a damned impertinent nigger. I vow I'll sell you South one of these days. Have you taken that letter to Mr. Renault?"
Lawsy me! if you ain't gathered up Marthy's old pink tea set, and give it a show, too! Did you do that to please David, or do you honestly think them is nice dishes?" "I think they are beautiful," laughed the Girl, sinking to a chair. "I don't know that it did please him. He had been studying the subject, but something saved him from buying anything until I came.
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