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Updated: June 29, 2025
One of the fellows who helped us unload at the docks told me you can always quiet 'em if you give 'em sugar." They surrounded her and held out their money for her to take her pay. "Come on, ma'm, don't be bashful. What's the matter, ain't this good money?" She was distracted by the noise they made, by their bronzed faces with white teeth and pale eyes, crowding so close to her.
Doan I know dat is de sperit of dat woman comin' back here to tell some of her fambly a message? Yes ma'm, dat is her sperit an' dat house is hanted an' nobody will live dar ag'in. "No ma'm, I can't read nor write." Charlie Davenport, Ex-slave, Adams County FEC Edith Wyatt Moore Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes Nobody knows my birthday, 'cause all my white folks is gone.
"Yes, ma'm, pure white bunnies, with pink eyes, and long, fluffy ears the dearest and cutest little things you ever saw. Let me show you." With that she made a grab in the basket. It was a blind-man's bluff grab, for she couldn't see one of the rabbits huddling in the corners. Bumper was the nearest, and her hand closed over him. "That's the prettiest one I have, ma'm," she said.
"It's just as you say, ma'm," he cried. "And I say right here that ridge pole should be in one piece. It's bad. In a few years' time we'll surely have to rebuild that roof." He sat down with a jolt, and glared fiercely at his friend beside him. Billy Unguin was on his feet in a moment. "I want to say right here that my friend's been sorting mail so long he's got nervous.
One of the sisters approached Mammy timidly on this subject, and was assured positively by her that "they ain't no nigger in the whole university whar I would marry. No, ma'm. I done got 'nough of um." We knew that Mammy's married life had been a stormy one.
I got out the cuff-link and went with it to the pantry. Thomas was wiping silver and the air was heavy with tobacco smoke. I sniffed and looked around, but there was no pipe to be seen. "Thomas," I said, "you have been smoking." "No, ma'm." He was injured innocence itself. "It's on my coat, ma'm. Over at the club the gentlemen " But Thomas did not finish.
None of the girls who come to me are under twelve." "I know, ma'm, I know; and I am sure you must think it a great liberty on my part to ask such a thing," the sergeant said apologetically. "It is not the teaching I want, but just a home for her." Mrs. Walsham felt puzzled. She did, in her heart, feel it to be a liberty.
The mountain girl interrupted Auntie Sue's tremulous whisper with: "I'll tell hit ter you, ma'm, in a little bit, if you'll just wait. I got ter see if they are sure 'nough a-sleepin' first, though." She stole silently from the room, to return a few minutes later. "They are plumb asleep, both of 'em," she said in a low tone, when she had cautiously closed the door.
No rumbling of wheels, nor clatter of hoofs, nor clangor of bells, nor roar and scream of engines to shock the soothing fairy-like illusion. The double charm of stillness and starlight was perfect. "By the by," broke in my cheery new friend, "you'll have to go with me to the play, ma'm; because my wife is there with the boys, and the house-key is in her pocket." "To the play!"
'Wall, says the old feller, beginnin' to move his bed over into the tuther room, 'reckon I'll sleep over here as North Caroliny ain't very healthy nohow, an' he did till years atterwards another chain proved that he was mo' than fifty miles over in Tennessee an' then his health improved might'ly. I'm glad you like our part o' the country, ma'm."
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