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Updated: June 5, 2025
Now I was asleep dat night, but when he asked me I said, 'Aunt Emmaline say tell you I hurt my head fallin' out de door de night you whip Uncle Sim. Den he say, 'Is dat de truf? I say, 'Naw sir. He took Aunt Emmaline down to de gear house an' wore her out. He wouldn' tell off on me. He jus' tol' her dat she had no bus'ness a-lettin' me stay up so late dat I seen him do de whippin'.
Now I gwine ter 'fess de truf. I gave Mr. Buggone an extra Sunday dinner yistidy. I was puff up wid pride kase business was good, an' I bress de Lawd fer prosperin' me. Den like a fool I 'dulge myself and I 'dulge Mr. Buggone.
Yes'm, I certainly was a good cook. "I belongs to the Palestine Baptist Church. Yes ma'm. I don't know what I'd do if twasn't for the good Master. I talks to Him all the time. "I goes to this here government school. A man teaches it. I don't know what his name is, we just calls him Professor. "Well, chile, I'll tell you the truf. These young folks is done gone.
"I will give you ten dollars if you will be sure and tell me the truth." "Dis nigger don't never told no lies, massa," protested Quimp. "If you pay me five dollars for de boat you done stove, and" "But you said the boat was worth only two dollars," interposed the officer. "Dat's de gospel truf, massa; but it costs me five dollars to get a new boat, to say noffin about de time.
I reckon ever'body has heard 'bout him. I seen more folks dan anybody could count. Heaps of 'em was all tore to pieces an' cryin' to God to let 'em die. I toted water to dem in blue de same as dem in gray. Folks wouldn' b'lieve de truf if I was to tell all I knows 'bout dem ungodly times. "Fore de war I never knowed what it was to go empty.
In fact, it seems to me like nonsense." The old man looked puzzled as well as pained. He had not pleased the lady, and he did not seem to understand why. "I'm sorry, ma'm," he said reproachfully, "ef you doan lack dat tale. I can't make out w'at you means by some er dem wo'ds you uses, but I'm tellin' nuffin but de truf.
"Mother belonged to him, yes'm. "I tell you the truf, what little I used to remember I done forgot it. I just didn't try to keep up with it. I wasn't concerned and just didn't try to keep up with it. "I know our folks stayed there a while. First place we went to after the War was Tennessee. "I don't know how long I been here I been here a time though. "Yes'm, I went to school several terms.
"You can't fool me, Sambo," said I. "You're nothing but a very good-looking little nigger. You can't make me believe that you are another Galatea." "Doan' no nuffin' 'bout no gal's tears," he returned instantly. "But I done tole yo' de truf. Me an' him was chiselled out o' brack marble by pap. Ef we'd been borned we'd been niggahs sho' nuff, but bein' carvin's, like I tole yuh, we's statulary."
"Yas, sah, yas sah, I'se tellin' de truf, de whole truf, and everything but de truf," eagerly stuttered the negro. "Where did you first see the light?" demanded Captain Hazzard. "That's about where I saw it," burst out Frank. "Was it stationary?" asked Captain Hazzard. "Yas, sah; it's station was airy, dat's a fac'," grinned Rastus. "It was high up in de air."
The trusting native had no fear of the men, having unreservedly laid bare his treasure house. "I no lie. I tell um truf," said Pete, looking toward Thomas MacDougall, remembering that the doubter had frequently called into question his word. "We see your gold, Pete, but you must show us a gold creek, too," was Tom's answer to the Indian. "I show you. Come!" Three years passed.
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