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"Suh," said he, "puhmit a man who was with the victohs of Manasses; who chahged with mo' sand than sense at Franklin; and who cried like a child aftah Nashville, and isn't ashamed of it, by gad! to offah his hand, and to say that he agrees with you, suh, in youah tribute to the soldiers of the wah, and honahs you, suh, as a fohmah foe, and a worthy one, and he hopes, a future friend!"
The old darky hurried away, but came back presently leading a scared yellow boy by the sleeve. "Now, Geoge Henry, you-all quit youah contrahiness an' ansuh de genleman's questions o' Ah 'low Ah whup you." "George, did you wait on that table over there by the window two weeks ago?" "Ya-yas, suh! Ah ben waitin' on dat table fo' mo'n a month." "Do you remember waiting on Mr.
"You got away from St. Jo in time, then. Otherwise you might have met the McQuiggan family, and never been the same afterward." "Ef you don' stop youah feet a-fidgittin', Boss," interpolated the neighboring bootblack, addressing the green-hatted man in aggrieved tones, "I cain't do no good wif this job." "McQuiggan was the name," continued the volunteer biographer.
"Yes," said the General, "I thought, when we were striking down that state of things, that we were doing a great thing for that populace. But I now see that I was only helping the black into a new slavery, the fruits of which we see here, around us, to-night." "I hahdly get youah meaning, suh " "Well," said the General, looking about at the little audience.
That is, Ricky was eating, but Rupert was reading his morning mail. "Yo'all sits down," said Lucy firmly, "an' yo'all eats what's on youah plate. Yo'all ain' much fattah nor a jay-bird." "I don't see why she keeps comparing me to a living skeleton all the time," Val complained as she departed kitchenward.
And away down we stomp aroun' the bush, We'd think that we'd get back to wheah we could push Black Eye Susie, ah think youah fine, Black Eye Susie, Ah know youah mine. Then, he resumed his conversational tone: "Befo' the wah we nevah had no good times. They took good care of us, though. As pa'taculah with slaves as with the stock that was their money, you know.
Taylor, his body following his finger, and endeavoring to accommodate itself to every jerk of Jan's head. "You hev killed Mistah Gordon, as brave and honorable a gentleman as ever hit the trail aftah the dogs. Youah a murderah, suh, and without honah." "An' yer no comrade," broke in Red Bill. "If you was, you'd hang 'thout rampin' around an' roarin'. Come on, Jan, there's a good fellow.
I appwoach you, quite civilly, y' know, with an offah decidedly to youah ahdvahntage, Mistah ah Tomlinson, and you tweat it " "Thompson!! By Heavens, you say Tomlinson again and I'll pound your face into shape!" roared the misnamed one, jumping up. Mitchell and Loring vainly tried to quiet him. "Weally, I shall be obwiged to wefeh you to my lawyehs " Wyatt began.
But he answered, as sharply as he knew how: "I's goin' a-fishin'. Any ob youah business?" "Where'd you learn to fish?" the stranger asked. "Down South? Didn't know they had any there." "Nebbah was down Souf," was the surly reply. "Father run away, did he?" "He nebber was down dar, nudder." "Nor his father?" "'T aint no business o' your'n," said Dick; "but we's allers lived right heah on dis bay."
"It's my opinion," concluded she, "that it's the fools, beggin' youah pahdon, whut's goin' out theah to grow up with the country, and the wise peepul whut's stayin' at home and advisin' of 'em to go." Celia shuddered. "I'm ha'f afraid to go," she said. "They say the wind blows all the time out theah. They say it nevah quits blowin'."
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