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De free slaves had land effen dey knowed what to do with. I got married in the south to Richar Williams but I didn have no big weddin. I had an old preacher what knowed all bout de Bible, who married me. He was a good preacher. I was de mothah of eight chillun." "Lincoln? Well I tell you I doan know. I didn have no thought about him but I seed him.
An' effen I can't sweep 'em off I kin spank 'em out." The fire at the barn was now raging; great volumes of smoke swept toward the house, heavily laden with live embers. 'Mazin' Grace, choking and frightened, wielded her broom with telling effect; no sooner did a spark touch the roof than it was brushed off into the long grass below.
With a cry of terror and despair, she fell forward on the ridge; all her courage and strength suddenly deserted her she could only cling there face downward, and sob and sob as if her heart would break. "Effen our house burns down, I want to die too," she whispered. "But Miss Lucy an' Marse Jim won't never know how I tried to take keer on it. 'Deed I did."
Toward the close of this century German taste began to predominate, and a young Dutchman, Van Effen, founded a magazine in French, called the "Spectator," which was in imitation of, and on the same lines as the English magazine of the same name.
Wan't no sich thing ez quarrelin'. Effen two sailors gits in a rucus, day pipe 'em up on de main deck." "Do what?" the reporter asked. "Pipe 'em up de bos'n blow a whistle an' call 'em in t' fight it out, w'ile de othas watch de fun. Den day gotta shake han's, an' hit done settled.
"Skeletums may be in style," said Mandy, breaking eggs for the omelette, "but I ain' ever found good looks in bones." "Don't you like my bones, Mandy?" "You ain't got none, honey." "You called me a skeleton." The kettle boiled. "Effen I called you a skeletum," Mandy said as she placed a cup and saucer on a small napkined tray, "my min' was on dat-ar Daisy. You ain' got no bones, Miss Becky.
Becky changed the subject hastily. "Mandy," she asked, "are you making corn fritters?" "I is " "What else for lunch?" "An omlec " "Mandy, I'm so hungry I could eat a house " "You look it," Mandy told her; "effen I was you, I'd eat and git fat." "It isn't fashionable to be fat, Mandy."
I found him in the garden and the only answer he would give to my questions was that he had as much right there as I had. Who is he?" The wide smile faded from Sam's face. "Mistuh Ralestone, suh, effen dat no-'count trash comes 'round heah agin, yo'all bettah jest call de policemans. Dey's nothin' but poah white trash livin' down in de swamp places an' dey steals whatevah dey kin lay han' on.
I use' ter say, 'You fool nigger, how you ebber gwine learn nothin' effen you don't ax questions? An' she'd stick out her mouth an' say, 'Umph, umph; you don't ketch me lettin' de white folks know how much sense I ain't got. Den she'd put on a white dress an' a white sunbonnet an' go switchin' up de street, lookin' jus' lak a fly in a glass ob buttermilk."
Sandy's brows clouded, and he shifted his position restlessly. "Now I ax yerself, Ricks, what'u'd you do?" he said. "Me? I don't give advice to nobody. But effen it was me I'd know mighty quick what to do." "What?" said Sandy, eagerly. "Buy a dawg." "A dog? I ain't goin' blind." "Lor'! but you're a softhorn," said Ricks, contemptuously. "I s'pose you'd count on leadin' him round by a pink ribbon."
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