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Updated: June 12, 2025
"But britches ain't whut's a troublin' me at the present writin'. Miss lady's duds is what's a ailin' of me. Mag Bailey 'lowed she'd meet me over here, but she didn't come. I'd ruther be deceived by ten men than one woman. You kin whup a man, but it won't do to whup a woman till you marry her, an' even then it's sorter dangersome."
"De Yankees come to Pass Christian, I was dere, an' seen 'em. Dey come up de river an' tore up things as dey went along. "I was 31 years old when I was set free. My Marster didn' tell us' bout bein' free. De way I foun' it out, he started to whup me once an' de young Marster up an' says, 'You aint got no right to whup him now, he's free. Den Marster turnt me loose.
When illness had the audacity to attack a Drumtochty man, it was described as a "whup," and was treated by the men with a fine negligence. Hillocks was sitting in the Post Office one afternoon when I looked in for my letters, and the right side of his face was blazing red.
Any girl thet could teach a county school an' abolish whuppin' not only a chance to do it, but a crowd o' young rascals needin' it all around 'er, an' her not doin' it! An' yit some other persons has been known to strain a p'int to whup a person they 'ain't rightly got no business to whup." He read the notice again. "Purty name that, too, Myrtle Musgrove.
English, Irish, or Scotch, he's a hull team an' a cross dog under the wagon. By God! he laid out Bully Bill straight as a fence-rail, wi' nothin' but a bit o' a whup, and then tuk Bill's pistols away from him! Ha! ha! ha!" "Jehosophat!" "He's jest a feller to whip his weight in wild-cats. He's killed the catamount, I reckon." "No doubt he's done that."
Macfayden also pretended to recall a "whup" of some kind or other he had in the fifties, but this was considered to be rather a pyrotechnic display of Elspeth's superior memory than a serious statement of fact. MacLure could not have ridden through the snow of forty winters without suffering, yet no one ever heard him complain, and he never pled illness to any messenger by night or day.
"What did they call ye fer not bein' able to whup us?" asked a grinning old giant from the mountains. "Nothin' 'cause we were able. All we needed was mo' men and mo' food and mo' guns. We'd 'a' licked the spots off of you Yanks if we had had a chance. You wouldn't stand still long enough to get whipped." So the talk went on, day in and day out. Battles were fought over and over but never finished.
They cam' in backside-foremost, upside-doon, lying alang the floor ye never saw the like until Sandy was near-hand at the swearin'. "Confoond thae Provosts and Bailies," says he, "I never saw sic a set." "Ow, ow, Sandy," says I, "ye needna get angry at thae bodies; they're a' deid." "Ay weel, we'll hae a whup at some o' the livin' anes," says Sandy.
"Our white folks didn't whup mah peeple; but de oberseers whup'd de slaves on uther plantations." "De Yankees had camps on de Capitol hill. En dere wuz soldier camps in east Nashville en you had ter hab a pass ter git thro?" "I member w'en de pen wuz on 15th en Chuch, en de convicts wuk'd 'round de Capitol."
"Monk he noo 'fear'd ze dog," grinned the Italian. "Monk he whup ze dog." "Vot's dat?" exclaimed Billy Buch "Vot's dat, man, you say? Mine Gott, I bet ten to one dat Ponyparte eats him oop!" To prove it Bonaparte ran at the monkey savagely. But the monkey ran up on the Italian's shoulder, where he grinned at the dog. The Italian smiled.
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