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Updated: May 5, 2025
Nevah know white men to be so mean about anythin as dey is about votin some places No'em, ah don't! Ah come heah in 1912. Ah was goin on to see mah daughter Madge Hannah in Oklahoma, den dis girl come to me paralized, an ah got me work heah in Lebanon, tendin cows an such at de creamery, an heah ah is evah since. Yes'em an ah don' wanto go no wheres else." "No'em, no huntin' no mo.
"You ought to git Mr. Thomas to take you to the th'atre some night. He goes lots." "Why, yes, what 's the matter with to-morrer night? There 's a good coon show in town. Out o' sight. Let 's all go." "I ain't nevah been to nothin' lak dat, an' I don't know," said Mrs. Hamilton. "Aw, come, I 'll git the tickets an' we 'll all go. Great singin', you know. What d' you say?"
I was only about three years old when peace came, but I remember when the paddle rollers came there and whipped a man and woman. "I was awful 'fraid, for that was somethin' I nevah see before. We "stayed on" but we left before I was old enough to work, but I did work in the fields in Mitchell County. "I came to Miami and raised 5 children.
"Well, I'll tell you des' how it is, suh. I come f'om down in Ma'lan', 'case I wanted to see de hosses run. My ol' mastah was moughty fon' of sich spo't, an' I kin' o' likes it myse'f, dough I don't nevah bet, suh. I's a chu'ch membah.
His face had paled to the color of paper, and beads of perspiration stood out on his pasty forehead. "Yuh yuh got the drop, Mr. Wolf," he pleaded. "Don't kill me!" "Nevah mind," the Texan said softly. "When yo' die, it'll be on a rope. It's been waitin' fo' yo' a long time. But now I have some business with yo'. First thing, yo'd bettah let me keep that gun o' yo'n."
"Don't interrupt me," commanded Jack, with a still more savage frown. "I'll show you in a minute that I have it in my power to find out just what you have done while I have been gone, from the time you stole " "Marse Jack, I nevah took dat breastpin; suah hope to die if I did," began Julius. "Hal-lo!" thought Jack. "I've got on to something when I least expected it.
She showed me a big white card with writin' on it an' said it say "This is a Union Plantation" an' put it on a tree so the Yankies wouldn't try to find de gold and silvers. But I never saw any Yankie squads cum around. When de wah wuz ovah, de missie nevah tell me dat I wuz free an' I kep' on workin' same as befoh.
Maybe I not such good voman like you tink me; maybe I cross, scold, get qvick mad; maybe I no like live widout de stage, de lights, de dance, an' de fun, hey? Vat you do den? You be ver' sorry you marry. I no like dat, no, no. I want de man to lofe me always nevah to vish he not marry me. You not know me yet; I not know you. Maybe ve vait, ve know."
Baggert hovering over him. "Where are you worst hurt, Rad?" asked Tom, with a view to getting a line on which physician would be the best one to summon. "It's all in mah face, Massa Tom," moaned the colored man. "It's mah eyes. Dat stuff done sploded right in 'em! I can't see nevah no mo'!" "Oh, I guess it isn't as bad as that," said Tom.
"'Dey would fo'sake yo', honey, and leave po' old Sarah Angeline, 'less I leaves yo' heah to die all 'lone by yo'self in the dark. "I looked up into the black face bending over my cot. "'Good Lawd, chile, doan' yo' look that way at po' old Sarah Angeline! Bress yo' heart, chile, I'se nevah gwine to fo'sake dis yere white baby in her powerful trials and deep 'flictions 'deed I won' now, honey!
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