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Daid two years 'fo' Massa Slocomb married Mis' Talbot." "And Anthony never waited at all on Major Slocomb?" "How could he wait on him, honey, when he daid 'fo' he see him?" I pondered for a moment over the picturesque quality of the major's mendacity. Was it, then, only another of the major's tributes to his wife, this whole story of Anthony and the madeira of '39?
I wanted of course some people in my doomed world besides Farmer White. I manufactured quite an assemblage out of one thing and another and gave them names, mostly of older boys whom I disliked, my Sunday-school teacher, who gave me a bad half hour every week, and my uncle Slocomb who was always telling my mother I would never be a man if she did not stop indulging me so much.
And I do assure you now, though you may not believe me, it was harder work to keep John Fry, Bill Dadds, and Jem Slocomb all in a line and all moving nimbly to the tune of my own tool, than it was to set out in the morning alone, and hoe half an acre by dinner-time.
'Major, said he, 'I done did all I c'u'd, an' dere ain't no way 'cept breakin' down de do'. Las' time I done dat, Mis' Slocomb neber forgib me fer a week. "The judge jumped up. 'Major, I won't have you breakin' yo' locks and annoyin' Mrs. Slocomb. "'Yo' Honor, I said, 'please take yo' seat. I'm d d if you shan't taste that wine, if I have to blow out the cellar walls.
Small thanks to you, John Fry, I say, and you Bill Dadds, and you Jem Slocomb, and all the rest of your coward lot; much you care for your master's son! Afraid of that ugly beast yourselves, and you put a boy just breeched upon him! 'Wull, missus, what could us do? began John; 'Jan wudd goo, now wudd't her, Jem? And how was us 'Jan indeed!
"Here, Sam, you black imp, carry yo' Marster Jack's gun and things to my room, and, Rachel, take the colonel's bag to the sea-room, next to the dinin'-hall. Breakfast in an hour, gentlemen, as Mrs. Slocomb used to say." I found only a bed covered with a quilt, an old table with small drawers, a wash-stand, two chairs, and a desk on three legs.
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