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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Well, Mattee, how are you?" said the planter. "Where's the piccaninny?" "Ab um here, sar keep im warm," replied the woman, pointing to a roll of blanket, in which the little creature was enveloped. "Let us see him, Mattee." "No sar, too cold yet bye bye, massa, see um; make very fine sleep now. Suppose white piccaninny, suppose black piccaninny all same like plenty sleep.
"Your funny Chinaman has been doing some stunts fur us." "Oh, he is liable to do almost anything," was the reply. "What is the matter, Hop? Who told you that you could come over here?" "Allee samee nothing the mattee, Misler Wild," answered Hop, shaking his head and looking serious. "Nobody say me comee over here; me comee allee samee, so be."
This important commencement and finale to the repast having been duly administered, they proceeded to the range of buildings before mentioned, in one of which they found the lady in the straw, sitting up, and showing her white teeth at her master's approach, as if nothing very particular had occurred. "Well, Mattee, how are you?" said the planter. "Where's the piccaninny?"
I know not the reason for their Performing this ceremony, which they call Heiva, a name they give to most of their divertisements. They compute time by the Moon, which they call Malama, reckoning 30 days to each moon, 2 of which they say the moon is Mattee, that is, dead, and this is at the time of the new moon, when she cannot be seen.
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