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Smith and Brown held a conference about the announcement of another meeting as Sam whispered to the head usher: "Could ye des gimme mine now an' lemme go?" "Yours?" "Yassah." "Your share of the collection?" The usher eyed him in scorn. "To be sho," Sam answered confidently. "Yer tuk it up fer de po' black man. I'se black, an' God knows I'se po'." "You're a poor fool!"
His clear voice called: "Don't put 'im up, boy!" Mary's heart began to pound. She knew he would be galloping down the white graveled way again in a few minutes. His next order confirmed her fear. "Just give him some water!" "Yassah!" The two women stood huddled close in tense anxiety. Lee hurried down the stairs and met Stuart at the door.
She had dimly heard of these things, but it seemed strange to be called to order from the list. "I'll fix this," exclaimed Drouet. "Sst! waiter." That officer of the board, a full-chested, round-faced negro, approached, and inclined his ear. "Sirloin with mushrooms," said Drouet. "Stuffed tomatoes." "Yassah," assented the negro, nodding his head. "Hashed brown potatoes." "Yassah." "Asparagus."
Find Sam and fetch him here." Ben bowed. "Yassah. Right away, sah." Lee turned to his guest genially. "I'm going to ask you to witness what I'm about to do, Ruffin. And you mustn't take offense. We differ about Slavery and politics in the abstract, but whatever our differences on the surface, you are an old Virginia planter and I trust we shall always be friends."
An' aftahwahd dis Mistah Watchman man" he waved his hand oratorically toward the witness-chair, where, in case the judge might wish to ask him some questions, the complainant had taken his stand "come around tuh where I live an' accused me of done takin' it." "But you did take it, didn't you?" "Yassah, I done tuck it." "What did you do with it?" "I traded it foh twenty-five cents."
"I don't want anything!" he said at last to his dusky tormentor. "Nuttin tall, sah?" "Nuttin tall!" Phil smiled at the eager, rolling eyes. "Get out you make me laugh " The boy ducked. "Yassah des call me if ye wants me I'se right outside de do'." The two cadets ate breakfast alone. The house was yet asleep except the children. Their voices could be heard on the lawn at play.
He had been before police-court magistrates before on one charge and another drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and the like but his whole attitude was one of shambling, lackadaisical, amusing innocence. "Well, Ackerman," inquired his honor, severely, "did you or did you not steal this piece of lead pipe as charged here four dollars and eighty cents' worth?" "Yassah, I did," he began.
Adna, who was a little nervous about his property, answered with some asperity: "No, we don't need any hack to git to Biltmore's." "Nossah!" said the red-cap. "Right across the street, ain't it?" "Yassah!" The porter chuckled. The mention of the family's destination had cheered him a little. He might get a tip, after all. You couldn't always sometimes tell by a man's clothes how he tipped.
"'You know that we white folks had to pay for the schools and bridges, and the county buildings had to pay salaries had to pay the county clerk and the janitor had to pay everything? I said to him. 'Yassah, said Nego. "'You were elected legally, and we white folks couldn't out-vote you, nohow? 'Yassah, said he. 'I s'pose we wus all 'lected legal 'nough.
"I scrubs 'em, sah," said Sam. "Yassah, I washes 'em like chilluns." He found himself, at Mr.
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