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Dat our folks wuz, an' allus wuz, de very fust fambly o' Virginy! I tells him, dat Marse Robert's father was General Light Horse Harry Lee dat help General Washington wid de Revolution. Dat he wuz de Govenor o' ole Virginy. Dat he speak de piece at de funeral o' George Washington, dat we all knows by heart, now "'Fust in war, fust in peace and fust in de hearts o' his countrymen.
"But it would be a hard pull to leave my ole Virginy home. You know that would pull you, Colonel now wouldn't it?" "Yes, it would," was the earnest answer. "You see I wuz born in this country an' me daddy before me. I like it here. I like the feel of the air in the fall. There's a flock o' ducks now circlin' over that bend o' the river.
And if I'm to unpick the blue muslin curtains, and take them down from where they was hung by my late blessed mistress's orders, in the spare room, and to fit them into the primrose room over the porch for she says there's a Miss Virginy and a Master Paul coming, and the primrose room with the blue curtains is for one of them, she says.
But it worked, and I got her off, and wot's more I got her shipped to Mazatlan, where she'll join Marion, and the two are goin' back to Virginy, where I guess they won't trouble Californy again. Ye know now, deary," he went on, speaking with difficulty through Mrs.
"There won't none o' dese hyah Germans hurt ol' Uncle Billy!" "Well, then, good-by," said the boys. "After the war is over we are coming back to see you." "After de wah am over," said the old negro slowly, "Ise gwine back ter ol' Virginy!" With another word of farewell the boys wheeled their horses and rode after their companions, who were now some distance ahead.
"Well, I'se gwine wid him. Ef he go wid de Union, I goes. Ef he go wid ole Virginy, I go wid ole Virginy. Whichever way he go, dat's de right way " "Dat's so, too!" Ben responded fervently. Sam advanced to the old butler with the quick step of the days when he was his efficient helper. "What ye want me ter do?" Ben led him to the portico and pointed down the white graveled way to Washington.
From City-point, a well-horsed coach took us fourteen miles, under two hours, to the busy little city of St. Petersburg; where, over a cup of tea, and a good Virginy coal fire, I reviewed this journey of a couple of days, which had afforded me many subjects for admiration and reflection.
It was only tother day at Washington, that everlasting Virginy duellist General Cuffy, afore a number of senators, at the President's house, said to me, 'Well Everett, says he 'you know I was always dead agin your Tariff bill, but I have changed my mind since your able speech on it; I shall vote for it now. 'Give me your hand, says I, 'General Cuffy; the Boston folks will be dreadful glad when they hear your splendid talents are on our side I think it will go now we'll carry it. 'Yes, says he, 'your factories down east beat all natur; they go ahead on the English a long chalk. You may depend I was glad to hear the New Englanders spoken of that way I felt proud I tell you 'and, says he, 'there's one manufacture that might stump all Europe to produce the like. 'What's that? says I, looking as pleased all the time as a gall that's tickled.
Then she paused, hesitated, colored slightly, and said, in a dubious manner, "Is it the rose room you mean, Miss Helen? That's the room Miss Polly is getting ready for Miss Virginy, and there ain't no curtains to the window nor to the bed at present." "Then I won't sleep in that bed," said Mrs. Cameron. "I must have a four-poster with curtains all round, and plenty of dark drapery to the windows.
The old negroes, who had been brought South during the early days of the century, called the old State "Virginy" and mixing it with local dialect, in some parts had got the name so changed that it was called "Ferginey."
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