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I don't like the look of it, sir; and have it back we shall, as sure as there's snakes in Virginny. 'Well, so be if so be, was the safe reply of the captain. 'You must keep a sharp look-out, Bareth, and don't leave the deck to call me; send a hand down. The captain descended to his cabin.
Old Mrs. Possum was quite right. Unc' Billy had forgotten all about that dinner. You see he had something else on his mind. While he had been playing with his children, he had thought that he heard a voice way off in the distance, and it had sounded very, very much like the voice of an old friend from way down South in "Ol' Virginny."
"I reckon a man don't need no severe reason but jest plain common sense fer movin' outen Virginny inter Kaintuck." Hump swept a disdainful glance at his offspring and that conversational volunteer ventured no further repartee. "By ther same token," announced the elder Doane, crushingly, "thar's trash in Virginny thet don't edify Kaintuck folks none by movin' in amongst 'em."
"And dat de fate of de Nigger Gin'ral, Who almost ruined old Virginny! Now, my boys, I'm quite done!" "You've quite done, have you, Billy?" said Harness; "take my advice and never begin again." "Eh, Mister Dick, you no ab song like dat in your budget, and I neber give you de tune." "I hope you won't; but now I'll play you a tune which will beat you hollow."
He ran his fingers through his gray hair, and incredulously demanded, "Who did ye say yore grandsire was?" "His name was Caleb Thornton he went ter Virginny sixty ya'rs back." "Caleb Thornton!" Through the mists of many years the old man was tracking back along barefoot trails of boyhood. "Caleb Thornton!
"What did ye say this hyar stranger calls hisself, Peanuts?" he demanded, bluntly, and when the other had told him he repeated the name thoughtfully. Then he shot out another question with the sharp peremptoriness of a prosecuting attorney, and in the high, rasping voice of his affliction. "What caused him ter leave Virginny?" The stout giant grinned imperturbably.
Stowe, "whom Christian charity has placed there as a shepherd to the outcast and wandering." He had seen no good results of emancipation. On one occasion he hired a colored man to drive him across the country. "How did you get here?" he said to the man. "Are you not a runaway?" "Yes, sir," the man replied. "I came from Virginny."
B'leeve me, my young fren', I kin place my old hands tenderly on the fair yung hed of the Virginny maid whose lover was laid low in the battle dust by a fed'ral bullet, and say, as fervently and piously as a vener'ble sinner like me kin say anythin', God be good to you, my poor dear, my poor dear." I riz up to go, & takin' my young Southern fren' kindly by the hand, I sed, "Yung man, adoo!
Got near dead with consumption 'nd come on to Kansas to die. Saw Springvale 'nd thought better of it right away. Was teachin' school and payin' plenty of attention to the girls, especially Marjie. They was an old man Tillhurst when I was a boy. He was from Virginny, too " but I pass that story.
I can't get the hang o' those new-fangled Yankee notions," he continued, referring to the parlour stove, named after the great philosopher whose name it bore. A large semicircle of seats was drawn up around the hearth. The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe. "I learned to smoke in Old Virginny," he said apologetically. "Had the real virgin leaf.
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