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"Yes, sar; I knows it like my own name, but I can't spoke it if I die for't," answered Job, laughing. "Try to do so." "No use, Massa Ossifer; dis nigger don't hab teef enough to do dat." "Can't you spell it?" "No, sar; can't spell noffin." But Job was very obliging, and he made a hissing sound, followed by an effort to sneeze which was a failure.
At this volley of questions the bewildered man turned piteously to the sleepers, and then stared at Jack in perplexity. "'Deed, marsa captain, I don no noffin 'tall, I I hain't been to de crick fo' a monf. I'se fo'bid to go da I " "Well, well, have you any food? Get that first, and then talk," Jack cried, impatiently.
But before ceasing altogever, I will obsarve that you are a pretty smart feller, Oonymoo, and I hain't see'd de Shawnee Injine yet dat knows as much as your big toe. Hencefofe I doesn't say noffin more;" and the negro held strict silence for a considerable time.
When I expressed my surprise at seeing the old plantation with such a grove of woods, Uncle Bob Jones, the oldest of them all, said: "Missus, all dat woods on dat side I helped clar off when firs' woods was thar, beech, maple an' linn wood, only now an' agin a pine. Den we work it till it wore out, an' wouldn't noffin grow on it, an' we lef it to grow up to dose pines you see."
"No, massa, dey ain't bin noffin' onpleasant since den 'twas 'fore den, I'm feared 'twas de berry day you was dare." "How? what do you mean?" "Why, massa, I mean de bug dare now." "The what?" "De bug I'm berry sartain dat Massa Will bin bit somewhere 'bout de head by dat goole-bug." "And what cause have you, Jupiter, for such a supposition?" "Claws enuff, massa, and mouff, too.
You see, sah, I wants to say right heah, befo' I goes any furder, dat I don' know noffin 'cept what tuk place under my own obserbation. I don' feel called upon to 'spress no 'pinions 'bout nobody. I jes' wants to state a few recurrences dat I noted at de time, speshally 'bout dem strangers as was heah in pertickeler.
"Laws, sake, for noffin at all; jest when she takes a notion; jest for ex'cise, like. Owes me one, now," said the girl. "I breaked de pitcher dis mornin', and, ho, ho, ho! how missus flied! I runned and 'scaped her, though." "She'll catch ye some time." "No, she don't, not for dat score. Specs I'll dodge till she's got suffin' else to tink about. Dat's de way dis chile fix it.
More than once he had seen those of his own color whipped on the plantation. Unconsciously, he glided into the language which he would have used there. "Don't whip me, Massa John," he whimpered in terror. "For the lub of Heaven, lef me be. I ain't done noffin' to you." "You'd better have thought of that before," said John, his eyes blazing anew with vengeful light.
"Oh h h h h!" exclaimed Budge, "I guess you're something like the Lord, ain't you?" "What makes you think so, Budge?" "Oh, 'cause you can do such lots of things at once. But ain't poor little Tod goin' to have noffin'?" "Yes, everything he wants. What would you like, Toddie?" "Wants a candy cigar," replied Toddie. "What else?" "Don't want NUFFIN' else don't want to be boddered wif LOTS of fings."
"Come here directly, and let me see what you've got in your pail." "I ain't got noffin for you," said Pomp defiantly. "We'll see about that," said John. "Now, do you mean to come here or not? I'm going to count three, and I'll give you that time to decide. One two three!" Pomp apparently had no intention of complying with John's request.
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