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"Well, then, I run out of the side door." "Both on 'em asleep?" Ephraim nodded. Ezra Ray whistled. "You'll get a whippin' when your mother finds it out." "No, I sha'n't. Mother can't whip me, because the doctor says it ain't good for me. You goin' down?" "Can't go down but once. I've got to go home, or mother 'll give it to me." "Does she ever whip you?" "Sometimes."
"Faith, it's a thrue as gospel, your honor. Says I, 'Ellish, you beauty'" "I thought," observed Mr. Eccles, "that she sometimes drew the long bow, Peter." "Oh, murdher alive, sir, it was only in regard of her crassin' in an' whippin' the word out o' my mouth, that I wanted to take a rise out of her. Oh, bedad, sir, no; the crathur's thruth to the backbone, an' farther if I'd say it."
"I ain't never got no whippin' sence me an' Wilkes Booth Lincoln 's born," boasted Billy. "Ain't you?" asked Jimmy. "I 'spec' I been whipped more 'n a million times, my mama is so pertic'lar with me. She's 'bout the pertic'larest woman ever was; she don't 'low me to leave the yard 'thout I get a whipping. I believe I will come over to see you 'bout half a minute."
When ol' mis' was whippin' me, I asked her what she was whipping me for, and she said, 'Nothin', 'cause you're mine, and I can whip you if I want to. She didn't think that I had done anything to the girl. She was just mad that day, and I was around; so she took it out on me. After that, I never did any more work as a slave, because the whole family ran away about that time.
Let us see, then murdher and bloodshed, hangin' and starvin', huntin', purshuin, whippin', cowld and nakedness, hunger and sickness, death and then madness, and then death agin, and then damnation! Did I explain it?" "Perfectly, my friend nothing can do better." "Well, then, think of it; but these aren't my explanations but I know who puts them to that bad book!
But a good whippin' will make anybody feel hurt, law or no law. And then he parted with her and got her property and her two little children. Why, it seemed as if everything under the sun and moon, that could happen to a woman, had happened to Serepta, painful things and gauldin'.
Well, at long an' at last we swapped level for Valiparaiser. I seen the workin' o' Providence in it from fust to last. The horse he's worth twenty notes, all out; an' Pilot he was dear at a gift. I say, Tom; that's a grand horse you got off o' the Far-downer. Goes like a greyhound. Gosh, you had that bloke to rights. He's whippin' the cat now like fury.
Old mistress used to send me to her mother to keep the Judge from whippin' me. Old Judge say 'Nigger need whippin' whether he do anything or not. "Some of the hands run away. Old Henry run away and hide in the swamp and say he goin' stay till he bones turn white. But he come back when he get hongry and then he run away again.
An' now I'm goin'. I'd stay an' fight, but 'tain't no use; an' I couldn't look a man in the eye who I thought tuk a hand in that whippin' without killin' him. I've got to go, Le Moyne," he said with clenched fists, "or I shall commit murder before the sun goes down." "Where are you going?" "God knows!
Wall, sir, he went West, way aout hyar to Californy, 'n' he couldn't stay thar nuther, 'n' he came back hum agin; 'n' I wuz bigger then, a gal grown, 'n' daddy sez to him, I heern him, 'Wal, sez he, 'did Claiborne foller yer? 'Yes, sez he, 'he follered me. I'll never git shet o' him in this world. He's allers clost to me everywhar. Yer see, 'twas jest his conscience er whippin' him.
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