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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Yass'm, dey out 'pon a san'bar 'bout two hund'ed yards up de creek." The black finger that pointed was as clean as mine. "You and this woman," thought I again, "are dodging those men." With a smile as of curiosity I looked my slim informant over once more. I had never seen slavery so flattered yet so condemned. All at once I said in my heart: "You, my lad, I'll help to escape!"
The moment he was fairly gone Johanna was in the saddle, charged by her mistress with the delivery of a letter which she was "on no account to show or mention to anyone but " "Yass'm," meekly said Johanna, and rode straight to the office of John March. A kind greeting met her as she entered, but it was from Henry Fair, and he was alone.
"You will be seen, Pa," she cried. "How can you be so reckless?" He stayed at the top of the passage, holding open the door that she might have light. When she reached the sidewalk, there was Ned standing beside the horses, and the carriage empty. "Ned!" "Yass'm, Miss Jinny." "Where's Mr. Clarence?" "He done gone, Miss Tinny." "Gone?" "Yass'm.
Yass'm, I walked from Buford's, an' 't was awful hard to do, cause my foot is all sore an' gangrened. I've got a furlough till it gets well. It's awful sore. Gawd! ef Thunder Run had seen what I've seen, an' heard what I've heard, an' done what I've done, an' been through what I've been through "
"You will be seen, Pa," she cried. "How can you be so reckless?" He stayed at the top of the passage, holding open the door that she might have light. When she reached the sidewalk, there was Ned standing beside the horses, and the carriage empty. "Ned!" "Yass'm, Miss Jinny." "Where's Mr. Clarence?" "He done gone, Miss Tinny." "Gone?" "Yass'm.
The customary challenge, "Who' d'you belong to?" failed on my lips, and while those soft eyes passed over me from bonnet to mitts I gave my head as winsome a tilt as I could and inquired: "What is your name?" "Me?" "Yes, you; what is it?" "I'm name', eh, Euonymus; yass'm." "Oh, boy, where'd your mother get that name?" "Why, mist'ess, ain't dat a Bible name?"
"Now, Euonymus, I judge by your being out here in the woods this time of day, idle, that you're both free, you and your sister, h'm?" "Ro' Robelia an' me? Eh, ye' yass'm, as you may say, in a manneh, yass'm." "She is your sister, is she not?" "Yass'm," clapped in Robelia, with a happy grin, and Euonymus quietly added: "Us full sisteh an' brotheh in a manneh." "Umh'm.
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