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Updated: June 17, 2025
De ole gal's gittin' dead on, an' says if de gemmen are such big-bugs dey better settle; but I gin' her a great song an' dance, an' squeared her up." We asked if he had any idea she would stand another deal of that kind. "Yer can bet I'll fix 'er," he replied.
It was a most dignified tableau, or it would have been, but for the long clay pipe the darkey held in his mouth and the pewter pot he carried in his hand. "Ladies and gemmen," said Monday, "dat is our ole friend, dressed as de Empyroar Charleymane." "Bravo, bravo!" Even Mr. Mole laughed. The curtain closed over this dignified and historical representation.
"Yes, Massa Clare; you may tell de young gemmen dey may laff freely too," broke in Clump. "I laff freely, I know, when I first set foot on de English land. I no longer slave, I free man, and so dey may laff as much as dey likes at ole Clump, perwided dey laffs wid him.
The Vigilants were about to follow the example of their leader, and dismount when there came a wheedling voice apparently the voice of a negress from within the cabin. "What you gemmen want dis time o' night wid poor Aunty Dinah?" "A nigger's living here," muttered the leader, in surprise. "What for you gwyne to disturb an ole niggah at dis hour?" asked the voice from within.
What if I sticks my stones and my bricks With mortar I takes from the snobbish? All who can feel for the public weal Likes the public-house to be bobbish. CHORUS. Likes the public-house to be bobbish. "There, gemmen!" said the publican, stopping short, "that's the pith of the matter, and split my wig but I'm short of breath now.
Aunt Linda had invited Uncle Daniel, and, wishing to give him a pleasant surprise, she had refrained from telling him that Robert Johnson was the one she wished him to meet. "Do you know dis gemmen?" said Aunt Linda to Uncle Daniel, when the latter arrived. "Well, I can't say's I do. My eyes is gittin dim, an I disremembers him." "Now jis' you look right good at him. Don't yer 'member him?"
"I never thought o' dat befo'! He was only dat little feller to ME yit. I never thought 'bout him growin' up an' bein' big. But I see it den. None o' de gemmen had run acrost him, so dey couldn't do nothin' for me. But all dat time, do' I didn't know it, my Henry WAS run off to de Norf, years an' years, an' he was a barber, too, an' worked for hisse'f.
Mammy often came to appeal to me, and wished to go to the governor, but I persuaded her not to do so; and the mutiny continued, and every day there was nothing but altercation at the meals. "So help me God, gemmen, you no gemmen. You make wish me dead, dat you do. I tak obeah water some day. I not live like this," said Mammy Crissobella. "I take pepper-pot I kill myself."
'A very fashionable drink, he continued; 'gemmen what see de General, and study national affairs, all take some on em in da mornin. "'Now, Cuff, I rejoined, 'just tell the truth; you mean that in order to keep the dignity up, it is necessary to take something stiff in the mornin? "'Dat him, mas'r, says he in reply, accompanying it with a broad guffaw.
What right had Clorinda to tell about her apron, or drive her down stairs? She cast an imploring glance at Dolf, but he looked resolutely away. "Come in, gemmen, out ob sight ob dis obstinit chile," cried Clorinda, almost sweeping poor little Vic down with a flourish of her skirts. "No," interposed gentlemanly Dolf, who had a genius for keeping out of storms.
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