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Massa," said he, "dat would be a sin to waste dis oloriferous rum dat way; just let me drink it first, and den I will stand, and you may break de bottle on my head; it can't hurt niggar's head, only cut a little wool." "Come, no more of this nonsense," I said, "put it down;" and seeing me in earnest, he did so. "Now," sais I, "tell us how you are going to cook the clams." "Oh!
"I'm very glad that they did find you, Dio; but how did you happen to be in such a condition?" asked my father. The negro fixed his eyes on my father's countenance "Massa, me tell you de tru's. Dat cruel man, Bracher, him make de poor niggar's back sore wid de lash, and den, when he find I lub one darkey girl, him beat her too and den sell her for fifty dollars, 'cos she almost dead.
Take care also not to alarm the family, but repeat to them what I say to you. You will promise me?" "Yes, Massa Mike," answered Dio, looking me earnestly in the face; "but it break dis niggar's heart, if you nebber come home." "Have no fears on that score," I answered, wishing to encourage him.
"But my father says we may take you back, if you are willing to accompany us to the west, where we shall be at a distance from the slave-states," I added. "With all dis niggar's heart," exclaimed Dio; "me go whar' massa go; right 'way to de Rocky Mountains, if him like."
"Dis child seen him in dat ar niggar's hand, and heard him go whack on de floor." Dodd hurried the packet into his bosom, then turned all gratitude to his sable friend: "Now God bless you! God bless you! Give me your honest hand! You don't know what you have done for me and mine." And, sick as he was, he wrung Vespasian's hand with convulsive strength, and would not part with it.
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