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Daddy Neptune wasn't exactly afraid, but he knew that Something hadn't any business to be pitterpattering at his heels, so he had turned around and said: "Ef you-all come out o' hebben, you 's wastin' good time 'yuh. Ef Dey-all lef' you come out o' hell, you bes' git right back whah you b'longs.
"Dat a calp cry, Massa Henry see he dere a canoe not bigger nor a hick'ry nut," and he pointed with his finger to what in fact had the appearance of being little larger; "I wish," he pursued with bitterness, "dey bring him calp of dem billians Desborough Dam him lying tief to hell." "So help me hebben, Obbicer, he no sail around a gun boat, he dam a Yankee.
"After having passed his hand ineffectually over several, he at length announced, as he stooped over one which I recognized, from a peculiar elevation of the bow and stern, to be the same we had passed. "'Dis a one all drippin' wet, Massa Geral. May I nebber see a Hebben ib he not a same we follow.
One o' de fust tings I t'ought when I woke up and stared around to find myself aboard dat vessel on de water, was dat I had died in dat cell and dat de angels was a- takin' my soul across de Riber ob Jordan to the City ob de New Jerusalem 'cordin' to de Scriptur'. On'y you see, chile, I wasn't dat downright sure and sartain as I myse'f was a saint prepared for hebben; nor likewise did de man as sat smoking and drinking at de table look like the chief ob de angels."
"Dat a calp cry, Massa Henry see he dere a canoe not bigger nor a hick'ry nut," and he pointed with his finger to what in fact had the appearance of being little larger; "I wish," he pursued with bitterness, "dey bring him calp of dem billians Desborough Dam him lying tief to hell." "So help me hebben, Obbicer, he no sail around a gun boat, he dam a Yankee.
Ninny shook her head, and kept shaking it; and Flaxie began to push her toward the closet door. "Will you get my hat, Ninny? 'Cause when I die 'n' go to hebben, then you won't have no little sister." "No, I will not get your hat, miss, so there!" All this while Flaxie was pushing, and Ninny was shaking her head. The closet-door stood open, and, before Ninny thought much about it, she was inside.
I'se got too much respect for my Master to leeb him in dat style; 'side dat, I'd never 'spec to go to Hebben in de wurld, 'cause I might jist as well rob him ob so much money, fur he paid a good price for me, I tell you. No, sah! I say. I'll stay where I am as long as I can, fur, 'cording to my idee, dar's nuffin meaner in all creation dan a free nigger, 'cept it's a hypercritical abolitionist.
I'se pore, but I'se clean, an' I ain't forgot how ter git up good dinners. Now, I wants ter hab a good talk 'bout our feller-sarvants." "Yes, and I," said Robert, "want to hear all about Uncle Daniel, and Jennie, and Uncle Ben Tunnel." "Well, I'se got lots an' gobs ter tell yer. I'se kep' track ob dem all. Aunt Katie died an' went ter hebben in a blaze ob glory.
Is you fell from hebben ter he'p me out er here? I prayed de Lawd ter sen' you, an' He answered my prayer, an' here you is, Mars John, here you is! Oh, Mars John, git me out er dis place!" "Tut, tut, Sandy!" answered his master; "of course I'll get you out. That's what I've come for. How in the world did such a mistake ever happen? You would no more commit such a crime than I would!"
It was totally different in character from any of the others, and was called "The Seven Glories of Mary." One of the verses ran as follows: "An' de berry next glory dat Mary she had, It was de glory of sebben It was dat her Son Jesus he tolled de bells of hebben;" and then, as at the end of each verse, came from the whole congregation the refrain: "Oh, trials an' tribulashuns!
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