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"Ah, chile, dat's what makes me tremble. It's bad 'nuf here, de Lo'd knows, but up dere! Why, dere's bears, an' tagers dat'll eat ye up in a jiffy. An' dere's Injuns, too, dat'll skin ye alive, an' scalp ye, an' roast ye fo' dinner. No, I kin nebber take root in a place like dat." "But we'll be pioneers, Mammy," the girl reminded.
It doan seems nat'ral to me fo' de Lo'd to let King George lose a good an' beau'ful country, an' den gib him sich a jumpin'-off place as dis instead. An', chile, I doan believe dat de Lo'd ever meant yo' to come here." "Why, Mammy? Do I look any the worse for it?" "Yo' couldn't look worse, Missie Jean, not if yo' tried ebber so hard."
"What did she say?" he asked Clementina, slanting the down-pulled brim of his soft hat purblindly toward her. She said she had not understood, and then Milray asked, "What sort of person is that Boston youth of Mrs. Milray's? Is he a donkey or a lamb?" Clementina said ingenuously, "Oh, she's walking with that English gentleman now that lo'd." "Ah, yes," said Milray.
What are you talkin' about? Why, Louada Murilla, I never even knowed what the Portygee's name was, except that I called him Joe. A skipper don't lo'd his mem'ry with that sculch any more'n he'd try to find names for the hens in the deck-coop. "I made a mistake," he continued, after a time, "in not havin' it cleaned up, decks washed, and everything clewed snug at the time of it.
But we prayed to Lo'd Jesus to take keer on 'em all dese years, an' we'll go home to glory soon." In answer to my query as to his age, he said: "Massa Moses' book say I's a hundred an' five, an' my Milla's a hundred an' three. I might slip count a year or two, but I reckon not." I never before met one couple living to this advanced age.
'Lo'd have mercy on me, a sinner! 'Be merciful to poor me, or I'm lost. These cries we hear'n from every side. I never felt happier or bolder in my life, while tears of joy ran down as I faced my ole massa. He slam de door shut, an' da said he jumped between two feather-beds to keep from hearin' de cries of de people.
We lighted a candle, and poking around, found the negro where he had crept into the farthest corner of a bunk with his face to the wall. And when we touched him he gave vent to a yell that was blood-curdling. "I'se a bad nigger, Lo'd, yes, I is," he moaned. "I ain't fit fo' jedgment, Lo'd." Nick shook him and laughed. "Come out of that, Benjy," he said; "you've got another chance."
"De hull family done be wery glad to see you, Massa 'Ratio." "I hope you are very well, Pedro," replied Captain Passford, as he gave his hand to the old servant. "Here is Christy." "De Lo'd bless Massa Christy!" And he shook hands with the son as he had with the father. "Is your master at home, Pedro?" asked the visitor, in haste to see his brother.
"O sis' Susie, you know my two nice boys was sole from me two year afore I was sole off dat plantation down de river, an' it 'peared like my heart was broke; an' missus had me hit fifty lashes 'case I cried so much. An' de Lo'd has been my sun an shiel' all dis time. An' here I foun' my two boys; da's heap bigger, but da's my own dear boys.
"Lo'd no!" said the shoeman, and he caught up the slack of his reins to drive on, as if he thought this amusing maniac might also be dangerous. Gregory stopped him with another question. "And shall will you think it necessary to speak of of this transaction? I leave you free!" "Well," said the shoeman.
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