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Shrig laid by the musket and came towards him with his hand out. "Sir," said he, "when them raskels got me down they meant to do for me; ah! they'd ha' given me my quietus for good an' all if you 'adn't stood 'em off. Sir, if it ain't too much, I should like to shake your daddle for that!" "But you saved my life twice," said Barnabas, clasping the proffered hand.
But to-night there was a new sensation: the slaves were on the qui vive to see Little Lizay flogged, and to find out whose hand was to wield the whip. "Now hurry up yere, yer lazy raskels! an' git yer floggin'," Mr. Buck said when the weighing was over. From right and left and front and rear negroes came forward and stood, a motley group, before the one white man.
"Guess I'd hav' 'sociate wid dem tam black raskels daan thaar, massa, an' dis chile no like dat nohow. I'se nebbah 'sparrage my famerly by 'sociatin' wid niggahs, massa, nebbah. De Prouts 'long good old plantation stock, an' raise in Lousianner!"
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