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Updated: May 14, 2025
Heaps o' things dis: Marse Chan he done gi' Miss Anne her pa jes' ez good ez I gi' Marse Chan's dawg sweet 'taters, an' she git mad wid 'im ez if he hed kill 'im 'stid o' sen'in' 'im back to her dat mawnin' whole an' soun'. B'lieve me! she wouldn' even speak to 'im arfter dat! "Don' I 'member dat mawnin'!
"Now, dis yer kin' er talk nach'ly th'owed Dan off'n his gya'd, en fus' thing he knowed he wuz talkin' ter dis ole cunjuh man des lack he wuz one er his bes' frien's. He tol' 'im all 'bout not feelin' well in de mawnin', en ax' 'im ef he could tell w'at wuz de matter wid 'im. "'Yas, sez de cunjuh man. 'Dey is a witch be'n ridin' you right 'long. I kin see de marks er de bridle on yo' mouf.
"Ef dey was, I doan' reckon you-all would have come heah, would you? Now you lay down and git comf'table. Doan' you worry none, Ma'am. You gwine be fine, by mawnin'. You suttinly is a right handsome lady, Ma'am!" The old woman shuffled from the room, to join her master at the foot of the stairs. "Where is she, Sally?" demanded Dunwody, "and how is she?"
It struck her that the young puncher waited with a curious interest for the answer of the foreman. "Did it look like I was afraid this mawnin', ma'am?" he asked, with narrowed eyes. "No, you all seemed brave enough then, when you had him eight to one." "I wasn't there," hastily put in McWilliams. "I don't go gunning for my man without giving him a show." "I do," retorted Morgan cruelly.
He was skinnin' a lion then, over hyar on the ridge. Thet was in the mawnin'. I reckon he's around, fer I seen some of the hounds." "Then, Lem you haven't heard about the fight yesterday between Jack and Wilson Moore?" Lem straightened up quickly. "Nope, I 'ain't heerd a word." "Well, they fought, all right," said Columbine, hurriedly. "I saw it. I was the only one there.
Dere wuz somethin' wrong 'bout dat cakewalk business, too, dat I ain' never unde'stood an' don' know how ter 'count fer, 'less dere wuz some kin' er dev'lishness goin' on dat don' show on de su'face." "Sandy," asked Tom irrelevantly, "have you any money in the house?" "Yas, suh, I got de money Mars John give me ter git dem things ter take out ter Belleview in de mawnin."
An', oh, my Gawd, I'm a goner if you don't git this hammered inter you good an' strong. I'd better do it now!" Thereupon he made a grab for the luckless Hewlet, who eluded the iron hands in the nick of time and retreated toward the house. "Go home, Tusk," he warned. "You're drunk tonight. I'll be at yoh cabin in the mawnin'." And, with this parting promise, he went in.
No lady should fly in the face of Providence she'd a sight better fly to the bosom of some man, where she belongs. This mawnin' I looked out of my window and my eye fell upon these unfortunate flowers. Right away I thought of you, livin' over here all alone and by yourself, with no man's bosom to lean on you haven't really got anything but a few fowls and the Lord to love, have you?
Combin' it didn' do no good; he wuk at it ha'f de night wid er Jim Crow , en think he git it straighten' out, but in de mawnin' de grapes 'ud be dere des de same. So he gin it up, en tried ter keep de grapes down by havin' his ha'r cut sho't." "But dat wa'nt de quares' thing 'bout de goopher. When Henry come ter de plantation, he wuz gittin' a little ole an stiff in de j'ints.
Clifford went out to question them. "Yes, Mr. Burt come up in de mawnin' an' stirred us all up right smart, slashed down a tree hisself to show a new gawky hand dat's cuttin' by de cord how to 'arn his salt; den he put out wid his rafle in a bee-line toward de riber. Dat's de last we seed ob him;" and Abram went stolidly on to unhitch and care for his horses. Mr.
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