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If she ca'n' marry one man cos she love him, she marry another man cos she hate him." "Marry a man because she hates him, Sophy? No woman ever did such a thing as that, or ever will do it." "Who tol' you Elsie was a woman, Doctor?" said Old Sophy, with a flash of strange intelligence in her eyes. The Doctor's face showed that he was startled.
"Yas," say li'l black Mose, "I done met up wid him." "An' did old Bloody Bones done tol' you dey ain' no ghosts?" say Zack Badget. "Yas," say li'l black Mose, "he done tell me perzactly dat." "Well, if he tol' you dey ain' no ghosts," say Zack Badget, "I got to 'low dey ain't no ghosts, 'ca'se he ain't gwine tell no lie erbout it.
"Moise, she'll ben good cook many tams mans'll tol' me that," grinned Moise, pleasantly, drawing a little apart from the fire with his own tin pan on his knee. "We'll give you a recommendation," said John. "This stew is fine. I was awfully hungry." It was not long after they had finished their supper before all began to feel sleepy, for they had walked or worked more or less ever since morning.
"Better'n a barn raisin'! Say, hones', I never seen nothin' like it 'twere so blandiferous! At fust I were a leetle bit like a man tied to a tree felt so helpless an' unsart'in. Didn't know what were goin' to happen. Then ol' Jeff come an' ontied me, as ye might say, an' I 'gun to feel right. 'Course Preston tol' me not to be skeered that the doin's would be friendly, an' they was.
I wouldn't let no old spunky Miss Minerva get the best of me that 'way. Come on, anyhow." "Naw, I can't come," was the gloomy reply; "if she'd jest tol' me not to, I coulder went but she made me promise, an' I ain't never goin' back on my word. You come over to see me." "I can't," came the answer across the fence; "I'm earning me a baseball mask. I done already earnt me a mitt.
He dodged Toot's pine-knot when he swung it at 'im an' then Toot laughed an' thowed it down and shook his fists at 'im, an' tol' 'im to come on for a fair fisticuff. Jest then Frank come to an' started to rise, but Toot sent 'im back with a kick in the face, an' helt 'im down with 'is boot on 'is neck.
"But say " whimpered Larry, "what'll Bud say " "Nothin'! Bud ain't goin' t' know. You take this instead take it!" And Soapy thrust another folded paper into the boy's limp hand, who took it whimpering. "Bud tol' me t' bring it back." "Well, you tell him you lost it." "Not much I'll skin right back an' tell him you pinched it."
"'Now, Cigous, says Wiesacajac, 'I'll been good spirit, else surely I'll punish you plenty for stealing when you tol' me you'll be good animal. Already I'll made you white, all but your tail. Now that the people may always know you for a thief, you an' all your family must have black spot on tail in the winter-tam.
It was always a marvel to me 'e didn't put somebody's eye out, but I didn't mind I 'ated everybody. 'E didn't live with me, 'e just came in an' out. 'E never tol' me 'is name was Elbert I just called 'im thet, the prettiest name I knew.
After having her picture taken she wanted to know what was to be done with it and when told it was to be sent to Columbus or maybe to Washington, D.C. she said "Lawsy me, if you had tol' me befo' I'd fixed up a bit." Folklore: Ex-Slaves Paulding Co., District 10 KISEY McKIMM Ex-Slave, 83 years
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