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The negro bowed gratefully. "Yassah, thankee sah, I sho did want ter go norf wid you, sah, but I hated to axe ye." Lee handed Sam the document. "You will go with me a free man, my boy. You are the only slave I yet hold in my own right. I have just given you your deed of emancipation. From this hour you are your own master.
"You mean you sold it," corrected his honor. "Yassah, I done sold it." "Well, don't you know it's wrong to do anything like that? Didn't you know when you reached through that fence and pulled that pipe over to you that you were stealing? Didn't you?" "Yassah, I knowed it was wrong," replied Ackerman, sheepishly. "I didn' think 'twuz stealin' like zackly, but I done knowed it was wrong.
"Thankee, sah." "Hurry back to your home now and help your people in their troubles." "Yassah, right away, sah right away!" The old man hurried home, bowing right and left to his white friends and muttering curses on the heads of the Abolitionists, who had dragged him from his bed and caused him to lose four square meals. Lee examined the pike carefully.
"How'd you get there?" "Dey volunteered me, sah." "Volunteered you, did they?" the President laughed. "Yassah dat dey did. Dey sho' volunteered me whether er no " "And how did it happen?" "Dey done hit so quick, sah, I scacely know how dey did do hit. I was in de war down in Virginia wid Marse John Vaughan an' er low-lifed Irishman on guard dar put me ter wuk er buryin' corpses.
"I is no traitor, sah!" he said quietly, "Is I a traitor, sah, because I is willin' ter die fer two li'l chillun, who is so like mah young massa?" "What!" shouted the general. "You admit it?" "Yassah!" General Steinberg's face grew purple and he waved his arms about angrily. "Then you shall die in their stead!" he shouted. "Sergeant! Take that black hound out and shoot him!
She extended the note with a second dip of her ponderous form: "Yassah, Miss Ma'y send dis here excommunication ter you, sah!" "You don't say so?" the President cried, breaking into a laugh. "Yassah." "Then I'm excommunicated, Governor!" he nodded to Chase. "I must read the edict." He adjusted his glasses and glanced at the note: "Your mistress is lying down?"
"War on Belgium!" "England has declared war?" asked the young lieutenant, in surprise. "Yassah, yassah. I jes' hearn erbout it." "Then which way shall we go?" "Yo'al must go that-a-way," came the answer, and Uncle Billy pointed toward the southwest, in the direction of the faraway frontier of The Netherlands.
"I reckon I'll just walk around a little outside. I hear Colonel Blount is off on a bear hunt." "Yassah," said Bill. "An' when he goes he mostly gits b'ah. I'se right 'spondent dis time, though, 'deed I is, suh." "What's the matter?" "Why, you see, suh," replied Bill, leaning comfortably back against a gallery post, "it's dis-away. I'm just goin' out to fix up old Hec's foot.
"Yassah," said the girl, and slowly approached. "Get us a little melk, Jinny," said the speaker. "We're plumb out o' melk down home." "Yassah," said Jinny; and disappeared leisurely, to be gone perhaps half an hour.
I hain't nebber had no taste for corpses nohow, an' I didn't like de job mo' specially, sah, when one ob 'em come to ez I was pullin' him froo de dark ter de grave " "Come to, did he?" the President smiled. "Yassah he come to all of er sudden an' kicked me! An' hit scared me near 'bout ter death. I lit out fum dar purty quick, sah, an' go West.
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