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In fine, I was to be miserable, and make all who came to me participate in this misery. It was more agreeable to remain at home among my flowers and shrubs, my books, and my visits to Uncle Toney. Do you wonder, sir, that I seem eccentric? You know how the young love companionship how they crave the amusements which lend zest to life.
Want to know, then I'll tell you whether I'll join or not. "`You'll join, whether you like it or not, said his visitor with a growl. `You've chosen to come aboard, and we don't allow idlers. "`I didn't choose to come aboard, said Toney. `Somebody brought me aboard when I was obfuscated, I suppose, and I'll have a reckoning with that somebody before long.
Tell me, has he not come home?" "No, mass'r I'se afeerd he nebber, nebber will ebberybody 'feerd he be drownded folks a been to de village up an down de Lebee ebery wha. No Toney. Captain ob de boat blowed clar into de sky, an fifty passengers gone to de bottom. Oder boat save some; some, like young mass'r, swam 'shore: but no Toney no Mass'r Toney!" "Do you know if he could swim?" I asked.
"`There's the book; you may read them, said the captain. `Put your name down at the bottom of the page. "Now Toney was no great hand at reading or writing. He could just manage to scrawl his name. He tried to make out what the articles were about, but it was more than he could do. "`Come, my man, are you ready for your grub? asked the captain.
"`I'm coming to see how you're getting on, mate, answered his visitor. "`Badly enough, said Toney, `I'm as hungry as a shark, and don't like being shut up down here. Who are you? "`I've been sent down here to ask if you'll, like a wise man, join this craft. She wants hands, and as you're well-known to be a good seaman, you'll get a good berth aboard.
If Miss Alice had not nuss you, you die." Alice stepped into the cabin taking with her the basket the little negro had borne, and placing its contents away, came out and handing it to Rose, bid her run home. "I am coming," she said as she adjusted her bonnet-strings, "the bugaboos won't catch you." "Yes, Uncle Toney, I am very grateful to Miss Alice. I shall never forget her."
The Society is not asked to disseminate Anti-slavery doctrines, but simply to be even-handed between master and slave, and, since they have recommended Sambo and Toney to be obedient to Mr. Legree, to remind him in turn that he also has duties toward the bodies and souls of his bondmen.
I remembered especially a yarn old Riddle told me one day about a messmate of his, Toney Lawson. I may as well try to give the yarn in his own words, though that may be a hard matter, and I can scarcely hope to do full justice to his narrative.
Both started; but in a moment were reassured, and slowly walked to the cabin of the good old negro. "I have come, Uncle Toney," said the youth, "to see you for the last time. I am going away to-morrow and, as soon as I can, going back to the distant home I so foolishly left." "I am sorry you tell me so; won't you be sorry, Miss Alice?" asked Toney.
It was generally up the Rhondda Valley that we went, and I came to know well that westward drive, with the sun setting behind the hills and turning the Taff river to gold. Every night we went a little further and a little higher Aberdare, Aberystwyth, Toney Pandy, Tonepentre, etc., etc. I gave fourteen lectures in thirteen days.
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