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Updated: June 9, 2025
This struggling emotion may have been generosity and it may have been remorse. Whatever it was, it prompted him to say, "Look-a-here, Glory, I'll help ye. I've got to go get somethin' t'eat, first off. Then, listen, you hain't got no money, have ye?" "What o' that? I've got eyes, an' I've got Bo'sn. I'm goin' to the ferry an' I'm goin' tell the ferry man just how 'tis.
Niggers can't git not'in t'eat 'cept out ob de creeks," replied the foremost of the party, who was a light mulatto. "Who lives in the house a mile or two down the stream?" continued Deck. "Cun'l Bickford." "Oh, yes; he is a Union man," added Deck. "No, sar!" exclaimed the mulatto vigorously. "Cun'l ob a Tennessee regiment. Whar you git his coach hosses?"
The man, who had kind slow brown eyes and a very placid face, looked at him without speaking, and shook his head at the outstretched hand. But the boy answered with a wide-mouthed grin: "He's hard o' hearin', my pardner is. He don't know what yer say." He then rose, and going close to the man shouted shrilly in his ear: "Little chap wants summat t'eat." The man nodded.
At nights he would come out on de place an' steal enough t'eat an' cook it in his little dugout. When de war was over an' de slaves was freed, he come out. When I saw him, he look lak a hairy ape, 'thout no clothes on an' hair growin' all over his body. "Dem was pretty good days back in slav'ry times. My Marstar had a whole passal o' Niggers on his place.
De Cox's was good folks an' give us a big weddin'. All de white folks an' de Niggers for miles a-round come to see us git married. De Niggers had a big supper an' had a peck t'eat. Us had eight chillun, but aint but three of 'em livin'. Me an' Pet aint been a-livin' together for de las' twenty-three years. Us jus' couldn' git 'long together, so us quit.
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