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I am for making this place more modern, that we may be cheerful whilst we can." The military man turned and surveyed the interior of the room, to assist his ideas of improvement in this direction. Gabriel and Coggan began to move on. "Oh, Coggan." said Troy, as if inspired by a recollec- tion" do you know if insanity has ever appeared in Mr. Boldwood's family?" Jan reflected for a moment.
"Who said it wuz a spook or any such pack uv nonsense?" glared back Summers. "I didn't," declared the black-mustached man with great positiveness. "No more did I," angrily sputtered Red Bill "thar ain't no such things nohow." "I dunno," said the black-mustached man seriously. "I do recollec' hearing my old grandmother, back East, tell about a ghost what she seen once. Want ter hear about it?"
I was de baby of de fam'ly. De house was on de right han' side o' de road to town. I had four sisters an' one brother dat I knows of. Dey was named Classie, Jennie, Florence, Allie, an' George. My name was Joanna, but dey done drap de Jo part a long time ago. "I don't recollec' what my ma's mammy an' pappy was named, but I know dat her pappy was a full blooded Injun.
Clarke gave you last October and instructed you to deliver to Betty?" "I dun recollec' no lettah, sah," replied Sam. "Now, Sam, don't lie about it. Clarke has just told me that he gave you the letter. What did you do with it?" "Masse Zane, I ain dun seen no lettah," answered the old darkey, taking a dingy pipe from his mouth and rolling his eyes at his master.
I don't recollec' whether he just had goat whiskers or chewed tobacco, but somebody who had been liquorin' up told him he looked like the Emperor Maximilian. And you know what happened to Maxy." "That's all right, neighbor.
He was the longest and most upstanding six-feet-four of proud father that Margery or her husband had ever had the pleasure of meeting. "He's got Neeter's eyes and and her complexion, but he's sure got me style. He measures up two-feet-six by the yardstick what we got with buyin' a case of bakin'-soda, and he ain't a yearlin' yet. I don't just recollec' the day but I reckon Neeter knows."
Den he says, 'Jim, dissen's 'bout you. It gives yo' birthday. "I recollec' a heap' bout slav'ry-times, but I's all by myse'f now. All o' my frien's has lef' me. Even Marse Fleming has passed on. He was a little boy when I was a grown man. "I was born in a cotton fiel' in cotton pickin' time, an' de wimmins fixed my mammy up so she didn' hardly lose no time at all. My mammy sho' was healthy.
I aint never known o' but two askin' to be 'put in de pocket. Both of 'em was sol'. "Dey had jails in dem days, but dey was built for white folks. No cullud person was ever put in one of 'em 'til after de war. Us didn' know nothin' 'bout dem things. "Course, Old Mis' knowed 'bout 'em, 'cause she knowed ever'thing. I recollec' she tol' me one day dat she had learnin' in five diffe'ent languages.
De young marster called us in an' said it was all true, dat us was free as he was, an' us could leave whenever us got ready. He said his money warnt no good anymore an' he dida' have no other to pay us wid. "I can't recollec' if he got new money an' paid us or not, but I do 'member ever' las' one o' us stayed. "I never lef' dat place' til my young marster, Mr.
I been ramblin' so long that I know the pedigrees of 'most everybody down this way. "Newspapers is all right, but folks get plumb hungry to git their news with human trimmin's. I recollec' I come mighty near gettin' in trouble, onct. Steve had some folks visitin' down to his ranch. They was new to the country, and seems they locked horns with a outfit runnin' sheep just south of Springerville.
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