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Updated: June 23, 2025
"'Look-a-hyar, man! he says, 'you want to see a colt what am a colt? "'How far? I says. "'No ways at all, jus' over yondah, says the nigger. "'Lead me to it, I say to him, 'n' he takes me over to a long lane with paddocks down each side of it. All the paddocks is empty but two. In the first one is the ole mare, Mary Goodloe; 'n' next to her is a slashin' big chestnut colt.
For nearly two hundred years ever since the city had had a post-office the post-office had been not too superior to remain in the vieux carré. Now, like so many old Creole homes themselves, it was "away up" in the American quarter or "nine-tenth'" at Lafayette Square. On holidays any one anxious enough for his mail to go "away up yondah" between nine and ten A.M., could have it for the asking.
"She's not yondah!" snarled Claude, with the frown and growl of a mastiff. "She's gone to de city." Mr. Tarbox gazed a moment in blank amazement. Then he slowly lifted his hat from his head, expanded his eyes, drew a long slow groan, turned slowly half around, let the inhalation go in a long keen whistle, and cried: "Oh! taste! taste! Who's got the taste? What do you take me for?
Parts of that truth he was pledged not to tell; and even if he could tell it all it was incredible bore all the features of a flimsy lie. "Mister," repeated the same child who had spoken before, reinforced by another under the other elbow, "dey got some blood on de back of you' hade." And the other added the suggestion: "Dey got one drug-sto', yondah." Frowenfeld groaned again.
De jail guards done be shot up, an' ouah folks turn' loose. Den we all strike out fo' new place, an' begin all ober again. Den a new gang come in heah and operate to get de money away from de breakwatah gangs. Dere's so much money in dat camp yondah dat ouah folks done gottah hab it ef a dozen men has to be kill'."
She had bathed her face in one of the leather buckets from the coach, and the dust of the road had been brushed away by the vigorous lady-in-waiting. "Yas, ma'am, Miss yo' highness, hit's monstrous fine fo' yo', but whar is Ah goin' to sleep? Out yondah, wif all dose scalawags?" said Aunt Fanny, rebelliously. "You shall have a bed in here, Aunt Fanny," said Beverly.
If I took any interest in any dam-Yankee outside of my son-in-law Laughton yondah, I should say that my brother's death had been amply avenged. The man at her right took up the challenge, and the war spread. Her eyes twinkled over the flames she had lit. 'Don't these folk, she said a little later, 'remind you of Arabs picnicking under the Pyramids? 'I've never seen the Pyramids, I replied.
"I'm afraid he has paid dear for his kindness of heart!" "Solon," said Mr. Dinsmore, "mount the fastest horse here and ride to Roselands for Dr. Arthur. Tell him we don't know how seriously this gentleman is hurt. Hurry! make all possible haste!" Solon was turning to obey, but stopped, exclaiming, "Why, sho' anuff, dar's de doctah hisself just lightin' off his hoss ober yondah!"
All you got do, you git good saddle-hoss and ride. Bom-bye you see her, you ride behind her till you find where her daddy livin' at. Den you ride pas' yondah every day till fo', five days, and den you see de ole man come scrape friend wid you. Den he hass you drop round, and fus' t'ing you know adjieu la calége!"
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