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The log cabins contained large fireplaces, and it was not unusual for the master's children to gather about them when the weather was cold enough for fires, to hear the negroes tell quaint tales and sing weird songs. The old colored "mammies" were very fond of "Massa's chillun" and liked to pet them and tell them stories.
But he, though he went to chapel in wet weather, clung to his own creed like an old soldier; and came down to Massa's house to spend the Sunday whenever there was a Communion, walking some five miles thither, and as much back again. So much I learnt concerning old Isaac.
'Ta'n't dat house; 'ta'n't dis yer house Massa lib in; Massa's sparrer-house. Reckoned I'd better come and 'form him." "Is that all?" asked his master, who was accustomed to Capua's method of breaking ill news. "Now, Mass' Roger, don't you go to being pervoked an' flyin' into one ob dese yer tempers! It's all distinguished now.
WPA in Ohio Federal Writers' Project Bishop & Isleman Jun 9, 1937 Topic: Ex-Slaves Jefferson County, District #2 MRS. CATHERINE SLIM Ex-slave, 87 years, 939 N. 6th St., Steubenville I wuz born in Rockingham, Virginny; a beautiful place where I cum from. My age is en de courthouse, Harrisonburg, Virginny. I dunno de date of my birth, our massa's wouldn't tell us our age.
He heard Paul say, "Now let's sing 'Massa's in the cold, cold ground," and Elly shriek out, "No, Mother, no! It's so terribly sad! I can't stand it!" And Paul answer with that certainty of his always being in the right, "Aw, Elly, it's not fair. Is it, Mother, fair to have Elly keep us from singing one of the nicest songs we have, just because she's so foolish?" His father frowned.
With him came a handsome middle-aged man, evidently the master of the house, and a troop of children. They were seven in all, four girls and three boys, and they ranged in ages all the way from five to seventeen years. No sooner did he see them than George began another song "Nicodemus, the Slave." This he followed by "Massa's in the cold, cold ground."
He was anxious McGaw should hear a few improvised stanzas of a new ballad he had composed to that delightful old negro melody, "Massa's in de cold, cold ground," in which the much-beloved Southern planter and the thoroughly hated McGaw changed places in the cemetery. That valiant Knight was still in bed, exhausted by the labors of the previous evening.
"Jake could t'row such a stick as dat ober easy enough, massa no difficulty about dat; but me no see how a stick like dat balance massa's weight." "It would not balance it, Jake, but the pull would be a side pull and would not bring the stick over the wall. If it were only bamboo it would be heavy enough." "Bery well, Massa Harold; if you say so, dat's all right.
"And your Master," sed Philander, "where is he?" "Massa's in the cold, cold ground at least I hope so!" sed the gay contraband. "March on, March on! all hearts rejoice!" cried the Colonel, who was mounted on a Bob-tailed nag on which, in times of Peace, my soul, O Peace! he had betted his money. "Yaw," sed a German Bold Sojer Boy, "we don't-fights-mit-Segel as much as we did."
The benevolent neighbors have lately had me in court under indictment for cruel treatment of my fat, lazy, rollicking sambos. For fifty years they have eaten their own meat and massa's too; but inasmuch as rich massa did not buy meat, the poor Benevolens indicted him. So was my friend Thomas Foreman, executor of Governor Troup. My suit was withdrawn; he was acquitted.
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