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"Das what the redcoats say; eight dollars fo' one rebel scalp, suh." I sat up, horrified. "Who told you that?" I demanded. "All de gemmen done say so Mars' Varick, Mars' Johnsing, Cap'in Butler." "Bah! they said it to plague you, Cato," I muttered; but as I said it I saw the old slave's eyes and knew that he had told the truth.
But, if I know anything of the weather, dye see, its time to be getting all snog, and for putting the ports in and stirring the fires a bit. Mayhap Ive not followed the seas twenty-seven years, and lived another seven in these here woods, for nothing, gemmen. Why, does it bid fair for a change in the weather, Benjamin? inquired the master of the house.
De tall gemmen was comin' right around hisself what he wanted to see, he said, was de color ob de colonel's money. Been mo' den two months, an' not a cent. "Co'se I tole same as I been tellin' him, dat de colonel's folks is quality folks; but he say dat don't pay de bills." "Did you tell the colonel?" "No, sah; ain't no use tellin' de colonel; on'y worry him.
Dolf, yer welcome as hot-house peaches and these gemmen, may I 'quest an interdiction?"
Hit's man huntin' you'se all arter, dat's what! Dar's been funny doin's 'round heah dis mawnin', 'caze dat gemmen wid de long haih what come las' night done skin out 'foh sun-up, ridin' dat onery white cradle of his'n what he calls a hawse, an' totin' de rustiest, wickedest ole gun I ever seen. He say he's gwine huntin', too; arter squir'ls, he say, an' I'se fool 'nuff to believe him.
The Negro obeyed, though his heart for some cause was in the court room. Suddenly there was a tumult in the court room and the Negro dropped his lemonade bucket and ran to the door. He saw a crowd surging about the lyncher that had been on trial, and he cried out in startling tones: "Gemmen, don't do dat. Don't kill de man. De boy whut wuz burnt, I'm his daddy.
"Ob course I does!" "Well," said Aunt Linda, "he war a nice ole gemmen. Wen he died, I said de las' gemmen's dead, an' dere's noboddy ter step in his shoes." "Pore Miss Nancy!" exclaimed Robert's mother. "I ain't nothin' agin her. But I wouldn't swap places wid her, 'cause I'se got my son; an' I beliebs he'll do a good part by me."
John's, who as he reeled by, stared in our faces and mumbled out his sentence of condemnation against wine bibbers, " Gemmen you sees I'se a little bit drunk, but 'pon honor I only took th th-ree bottles of wine that's all." It was "Christmas times," and doubtless the poor man thought he would venture for once in the year to copy the example of the whites.
Ki! she tinks no culled gemmen in dese parts fit ter hole a cannle when she braid her long straight ha'r, but when she see de ribbin I kin git her ter tie dat ha'r up wid, an' de earrings I kin put in her ears, she larf on toder side ob her face. 'Fo' I go I'se a-gwine ter buy dat ar gole ring ob Sam Milkins down at de tavern.
Young Massa won't have no lawns, no greenhouses, no nothin'. He say he laik it wil' and simple. He on'y come out fo' two months, mebbe. But Miss Jinny, she make it lively. Las' week, until the Jedge come we hab dis house chuck full, two-three young ladies in a room, an' five young gemmen on trunnle beds." "Until the Judge came?" echoed Stephen. "Yassuh. Den Miss Jinny low dey all hatter go.
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