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Updated: June 5, 2025
And when I see that 'Cabot, What-d'ye-call-it and Cabot' name printed out right on the envelope and it come over me that 'twas THAT letter he'd forgot and had been totin' 'round with him, 'WELL, says I. 'My Lord of Isrul! I says " "Primmie! Primmie, stop! Stop please! And tell me: Where are those letters?" "Hey? I was goin' to tell you.
The next day Missis Rucker sets tables all over her dinin'-room an' brings on her beans. Eighteen Red Dog gents is thar, each totin' of a can of tomatters. An' let me impart right yere, son, we never has a more free an' peacefuller day than said Thanksgivin'. "'Them beans is a little hard, ain't they? says Doc Peets, while we-alls is eatin', bein' p'lite an' elegant like.
"Reckon I'm some pumpkins on thu carry, mahself!" he said with much unction, grinning at the scandalized Abbie, who was quaintly anathematizing him. "No use yuh yowlin', Miss Abbie. The fashion's been sot an' yuh cloth is cut. But yuh shore got to gentle up a heap or Ken, yeah, will hev to do thu totin'."
We'll try to be easy on him when we ketch him." "None of 'em," sobbed the woman. "We walked, an' I took turns totin' the young uns. My husband! Oh, God! my husband!" "Beg yer pardon, ma'am," said Bowney's captor, "but nobody can't b'leeve that; it's nigh onto twenty mile." "I'd ha' done it ef it had been fifty," cried the woman, angrily, "when he wuz in trouble. Oh, God! Oh, God!
"Don't be skeered, Daddy Withers," says a drawly voice out of the dark; "we ain't goin' to hurt YOU. We got a little matter o' business to tend to with them two fellers yo' totin' to town." Thirty men with guns would be considerable of a proposition to buck against, so we didn't try it.
My comrade had suggested that the man who carried the barrow "wud soon tire o' totin' it:" and this proved to be the case. On striking into an old buffalo-path, our eyes were once more gladdened by the sight of the wheel-track plainly imprinted in the mud. "Our prospecting" was for the time at an end.
Most of them shuddered with superstitious dread of what it might portend. "She totin' Cheri!" some of them shouted. Some of the more daring gathered about her, and followed at her heels, only to fall back with new terror when she turned her distorted face upon them. Her eyes were bloodshot and the saliva had gathered in a white foam on her black lips.
"Grangers burn their eyebrows off and shoot theirselves through the feet when they go totin' guns around," the fellow said, speaking in the wheedling, ingratiating way that one addresses an irresponsible child or a man in alcoholic paresis. The others appeared to find a subtle humor in their comrade's mode of handling a granger. Morgan grinned with them as if he found it funny himself.
Onliest time a nigger sees co'n whisky's when he's totin' it fo' some one else." "I reckon a nigger's fool enough without corn whisky," said Hannibal. They mounted a flight of stairs and passed down a narrow hall. This brought them to the back of the building, and Eph pushed open the door on his right.
Apollo winced a little at this, but he answered, bravely, "I don't kyah ef Pier was walkin' wid her; I was totin' her hoe, all de samee." At this Pete seemed to forget all about Apollo and his case, and he remarked that he never could see what some folks saw in city niggers, nohow and neither could Apollo.
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