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And what shows that Drusilly wuzn't so bad after all and did have her good streaks and a deep reverence for the law is, that she stood his whippin's first-rate, and never whipped him. Now she wuz fur bigger than he wuz, weighed eighty pounds the most, and might have whipped him if the law had been such.
And what shows that Drusilla wuzn't so bad as he s'posed she wuz, what shows that she did have her good streaks, and a deep reverence for the law, is, that she stood his whippin's first-rate, and never whipped him. Now, she wuz fur bigger than he wuz, weighed 80 pounds the most, and might have whipped him if the law had been such.
His name was Marse Frank Beeks an' he was good as any white man dat ever lived. I don't never 'member him whippin' one o' de slaves, leastways not real whippin's. I do 'member hearin' 'bout slaves on other places gittin' whipped sometimes. I guess Niggers lak dat wished dey was free, but I didn' want to leave my white folks, ever.
"Yes, Geo'giana," returned Peter, with much humility, "I could suffer great deal more'n dat for your sake; but dere's no sich t'ings as little whippin's know'd ob in dis yar town. W'en de lash am goin' he usu'lly makes de hair fly. Moreober, dey whip womans as well as mans, an' if he was to took de bit out ob your pretty shoulder, I couldn't suffer dat, you know.
"I 'member hearin' 'em talk 'bout the Yankees how they'd come through there and how they used to do. "I guess we had plenty to eat. All I know was when I got ready to eat, I could eat. "My parents was brought from Tennessee but all the place I know anything about is Walnut Lake. "I know my mother said I was the cause of her gettin' a lot of whippin's.
All that he said was, "If I 'ad my way I'd 'ave it out of you for this. A good sound whippin's what you want." "Is it?" I asked contemptuously. "Lock the door." Ephraim left me in the sitting-room while he made his report to my uncle. It was not a long report. He returned in a few minutes to say that I was to be locked into my room without supper. "Mr. 'Ide is in a fine taking," he said.
"White's as good as black, I s'pose, a'n't it?" answered Tidy, diverted by the droll manners of her new acquaintance. "I don't see no odds nohow." "'Ta'n't 'spectable, dat's all. Brack's de fashion here on dis yer plantation. 'Tis tough, b'ars whippin's and hard knocks. Whew! Hi! Ke! Missus'll cut ye all up to slivers fust time." "Does missus whip?" "Reckon she does jest dat ting.
"Old woman what cooked for the chillun was old Aunt Henie and she walked half bent with a stick. "I went to school some after freedom. Learned how to spell and read but not much writin'. "I can't tell you 'bout no whippin's 'cause if they whipped the folks they didn't do it at the quarters where the chillun was. "I been farmin' all my life till I come to Arkansas in 1916.
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