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"I'm tollubul, thankee, seh; de medicine makes me kind o' sleepy, that's all." I seated myself beside him, there was a moment or two of silence, then he asked, fretfully: "Whai whaih's Ailse? I like to see the 'oman 'roun'; s'haint got no speshul great gif', but she's kind o' handy wen a body's sick." "You don't seem to care so much for gifted women in a sick-room, Thomas?"
Some day we'll th'ow all his nassy medicine 'way, an' he come in an' say: 'Whaih's all my medicine? Den we answeh up sma't like: 'We done th'owed it out. We don' need no nassy medicine. Den he look 'roun' an' say: 'Who dat I see runnin' roun' de flo' hyeah, a-lookin' so fat? an' you up an' say: 'Hit's me, dat's who 'tis, mistah doctor man! Den he go out an' slam de do' behin' him.
He knew that she had been to the jug and found . He groaned, but at last his very helplessness drove him in. Polly, with swollen eyes, was sitting by the table, the empty jug lying on its side before her. "Sam," she exclaimed, "whaih's my money? Whaih's my money I been wo'kin' fu' all dis time?" "Why Why, Polly " "Don' go beatin' 'roun' de bush. I want 'o know whaih my money is; you tuck it."
Did she think she was gwine to come down hyeah an' skeer me, huh, uh? Whaih's dat fryin' pan?" The man of the house hears the rustle of his wife's skirts as she beats a retreat and he goes upstairs and into the library whistling, "See, the Conquering Hero Comes." His name was Patsy Barnes, and he was a denizen of Little Africa. In fact, he lived on Douglass Street.
I's so'y to see dee ol' place go, but you got to go out of it wid yo' haid up, jes' ez ef you was gwine away fo' a visit an' could come back w'en evah you wanted to." "I shall slink out of it like a cur. I can't meet the eyes of the new owner; I shall hate him." "W'y, Miss Mime, whaih's yo' pride? Whaih's yo' Ha'ison pride?" "Gone, gone with the deed of this house and its furniture.
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