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Then as if to himself "Oh, if I could only tell when morning would come!" "Massa want know when time to get up to go to work?" said Pomp, sharply. "Yes." "Oh, quite soon, sah. Sun come up dreckly, and warm poor little nigger; I so dreffle cold." "How do you know?" cried my father, clinging as it were like a drowning man to a straw of hope. "Oh, Pomp know, sah. Dah!
"Brer Possum, he lope off atter de butter, en dreckly here he come lopin' back wid his years a trimblin' en his tongue a hangin' out. Brer Fox, he holler out: "'W'at de matter now, Brer Possum? sezee. "'You all better run yer, fokes, sez Brer Possum, sezee. 'De las' drap er dat butter done gone! "'Whar she gone? sez Brer Fox, sezee. "'Look like she dry up, sez Brer Possum, sezee.
"I likes to keep it jist on the sizzle," he said in explanation to himself; "hard bilin' makes it tough I'll keep it jist a-simmerin'." Here his soliloquy was interrupted by the return of the dog. "All right, Five Bob," said the hatter, "dinner'll be ready dreckly. Jist keep yer eye on the sheep till I calls yer; keep 'em well rounded up, an' we'll yard 'em afterwards and have a holiday."
Wife, she was cryin' by this time, an' parson, he claired his th'oat an' coughed, an' then he commenced walkin' up an' down, an' dreckly he stopped, an' says he, speakin' mighty reverential an' serious: "Lookin' at this case speritually, an' as a minister o' the Gospel," says he, "it seems to me thet the question ain't so much a question of DOIN' ez it is a question of WITHHOLDIN'. I don't know," says he, "ez I've got a right to withhold the sacrament of baptism from a child under these circumstances or to deny sech comfort to his parents ez lies in my power to bestow."
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