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Updated: June 5, 2025
"My mother was the mother of twelve chillun she was a fast breeder. "I was the onliest girl and old missis was just wild about me. I had good owners. I don't remember no hard treatment among 'em. "I 'member she used to have me runnin' from house to house totin' a little note. That's the reason I had such a good time. Heap of times I slept up at the big house with old missis. "I got a good memory.
He helped with the runaway slaves." "Yas, sah. Ah's bin called up thet way afore. So Ah just nat'larly went ter work cookin', an' purty soon dey all ov 'em cum stragglin' in ter de cabin fer ter eat. Dar was four ov 'em, sah," her voice a husky whisper. "Bill Sikes, totin' a gun in his han', a free nigger whut dey called Pete, an' two wimin.
"I was thinking of that boy getting here, that's all. And I couldn't see why we shouldn't do our share which totin' coffee-pots and warming ovens ain't, as I see it." "Well, but my heavens, man!" said Simeon, "it's Christmas! You can't go giving anybody anything, can you?" "I don't mean give it to him for Christmas at all," protested Abel. "I mean give it to him just like you would any other day.
"You're a Yank yourself," answered Tom hotly. "What's that?" "We're no more Yanks than you are. We were on our way to enlist in the army at Chattanooga, and this is the way we get handled." "Don't believe 'em," said Alf. "Let's search 'em." "Why not wait until we get back to Judson? Easier to do it there." "All right," replied Alf. "You two ride along beside 'em. I'm done up totin' this gun."
While these thoughts were running through my mind, Matthias' voice was heard, a moment more and he was saying: "Guess he's done gone sure dis time; he drink an fiddle, an fiddle an' drink; and nex' ting I knowed he's done dar at the feet of dem stars all in a heap by hisself." "Who's that?" I cried. "Plint, Miss. He's done gone, sure, an' I came roun' to get some help 'bout totin' him up stars.
W'en a slave wanted ter go ter 'nother plantation he had ter hab a pass. Ef' dey disobeyed dey got a whuppin, en ef dey had a pass widout de Marsters signature dey got a whuppin. Ef'n dey had ter hab passes now dere wouldin' be no meaness." "I member de Klu Klux Klan kumin ter mah daddy's home axin fer water en dey would keep us totin' water ter dem fer fifteen ter twenty minutes.
And then, quite as though their destiny wished it made plain that not yet had the time come for them to devote exclusively to themselves, Barbee rode down toward them, spurring through the last of the fleeing herd, shouting: "There's a dozen men ridin' this way an' ridin' like ! An' the firelight's shinin' on their guns; every man's totin' one.
So th' punchers got to totin' wire-snips, an' when they runs up agin a fence they cuts down half a mile or so. Sometimes they'd tie their ropes to a strand an' pull off a couple of miles an' then go back after th' rest. Th' ranch bosses sent out men to watch th' fences an' told 'em to shoot any festive puncher that monkeyed with th' hardware.
He turned upon me with the first expression of trouble and anxiety I had ever seen him wear. "Yes, sir, that's him. And I've kem me, Yuba Bill! kem MYSELF, a matter of twenty miles, totin' a GUN a gun, by Gosh! to fight that that that potatar-bug!" He walked to the window, turned, walked back again, finished his whiskey with a single gulp, and laid his hand almost despondingly on my shoulder.
Old Orrick's heard that you've hit the town and is totin' a gun and talk-in' wild. And, of course, there's others. Don't jump off no tall buildin's, I say, expectin' Providence to land you soft. There's a train to Noo York at eight-ten. Cut while you can!" "Why, thanks," said Varney, laughing and starting on. "If I should see Mr. Stanhope at any time, I won't fail to pass him the friendly tip."
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