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Tom was off again while grandmamma said: "Rachel, you've been stealing." "Well, Miss Paula! ain't I gwine hab my sheah w'en dem knock de head' out dem hogsitt' an' tramp de sugah under dah feet an' mix a whole cisron o' punch?" Rachel told the events of the night.
You know my papa he hown a sugah-plantation, you know. 'Jules, me son, he say one time to me, 'I goin' to make one baril sugah to fedge the moze high price in New Orleans. Well, he take his bez baril sugah I nevah see a so careful man like me papa always to make a so beautiful sugah et sirop.
You'd be entertaining your dearest enemies, serene in the consciousness that your house was a credit to your good management; and behold, Mary Magdalen in the drawing-room door, with her wig askew and her hands rolled in her apron: "Oh, Miss Sophy!" "Well?" say you, resignedly, with a feigned smile; "what is it, Mary Magdalen?" "Miss Sophy, you know we-all's sugah?" "Yes."
I am a Catholique, you is a schismatique; you thing it is wrong to dring some coffee well, then, it is wrong; you thing it is wrong to make the sugah to ged the so large price well, then, it is wrong; I thing it is right well, then, it is right; it is all 'abit; c'est tout. What a man thing is right, is right; 'tis all 'abit.
"Don't you know that since you're 'growed up, as Aunt Cindy says, she swears by you? I heard her tell Mom Beck last night she reckoned she'd have to make a batch of little sugah hah't cakes right away, for Mistah Rob would be coming prowling round her cooky jah." "Am I growed up?" asked Rob gravely, throwing back his shoulders and looking into the mirror at the tall reflection it showed him.
There was a bass that had nosed the river's current that morning, two pullets cut off in the very dawn of adolescence, and a mysteriously perfect pastry whose secret I had never been able to wring from him beyond the uninforming and obvious enough data that it contained "some sugah an' a little spicin's."
"One day 'bout 12 o'clock we se'd de Yankee soldiers pas' our house. De missus hid her fine things, but dey don' kum on de place. All us Niggers run ter de cellar en hid. We found de sugah barrels en we scracht 'round fer sum sugah ter eat." "One time de Ku Klux Klan kum ter our house but dey harm nobody.
"We stayed on a while after Freedom and den our Massy he giv' my mothah a cow and calf along wid other presents an 'he carried us back to my father an' we had a little home. "Ah loved man Missus just as good as ah did my own mothah. She whipped me a few times but then de whippins wuz honly raps on de head wid her thimble. "Now, ah wouldn't steal nothin' else, but uh ah, uh ah did like sugah!"
An' Miss Lucy, butter an' sugar mus' be worked up togedder fus', till de butter resolve de sugah, 'fore we puts de udder gredinents in." "Ah, I see we have a good deal to learn before we can hope to rival you as cooks, Aunt Viney," laughed Lucy. "I spec' so, missy; you throw all de gredinents in togedder, an' tumble your flouah in all at once, an' you nebber get your cake nice an light."
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