You's got to come in dis same gate wid de udder folks.'

By no means, brev'ren; you was all brung up by women, an' you've got ter lib wid' em, an ef anythin' in dis yer worl' is ketchin', my dear brev'ren, it's habin debbils, an' from wot I've seen ob some ob de men ob dis worl'

W'ite folks would n't want ter fool wid a nigger man, an' we doan know who his folks is.

What I want wid money, den?

but Massa Nelson was mad den; he said: 'You, you black nigger, dare to talk to me about rights;' and he struck Mark over de face wid de big carriage whip, and said 'he'd 'tend to him in de mornin'.'" "And did Mark say nothing more than that?" inquired Mrs. Jennings; thinking that Hasty, like any other wife, would endeavor to hide her husband's faults.

I knowed it, but I was hasty: One day she hit me wid a stick an' I th'owed it back at her.

"You cut heem you finger wid your knife.

I 'range wid a nigger to take me 'cross da riber in er skift to de plantation where dey all was and 'bout fust folkses dat I see is Ella an' her peoples en lots of de famblys from de ole home place back in Tennessee

Didn't I sae him wid me own eyes, shure?"

" "Not a great deal; I used to take old massa wid his children out for a sail sometimes, and den I hab a slight recollection ob being brought from a great way off; but dat must hab been before I come to be berry great.

"Tump did start over heah wid a gun, but Mister Dawson Bobbs done tuk him up

So you des lemme know, en ef he gits any wusser I'll be willin' ter gib yer five hund'ed dollars fer 'im, en take my chances on his livin'.' "Sho 'nuff, when Henry begun ter draw up wid de rheumatiz

Mas' Thurnall he come dis mornin'; gone up picken' bush wid de ladies.

" "I remember wen we uster wash cloes wid a paddle.

See how she sits on that bit of a sate that I puts there for her wid my own hands, as a laddy should, looking jist what she is, the quane of the woods, and the delight of our eyes!

Den Massa Nelson said he had no right to sit up, if it was gwine to interfere wid his work.

She brush us all out wid the broom, tell us go build a play house.

On the afternoon of the day on which Mrs Keswick's letter arrived at Midbranch, Peggy had great news to communicate to Aunt Judy, the cook: "Miss Rob's gwine to Mahs' Junius' house in de kerridge, an' I's gwine 'long wid her to set in front wid Sam.

An evah one uv dem wuz bo'n wid a veil ovah dey face.

"One man come to dinner, he hit a horse wid a rock and run way.

Dat day on de road in town I met my ole Missus McElroy en she had me ter help her wid de chilluns and tuk me ter de circus

"They're a-dhraggin' the timbers away; timbers wid the fire in 'em yit.

nuffin de matter wid 'im, 'cep'n' de rheumatiz, but his strenk des dwinel' away 'tel he did n' hab ernuff lef ter draw his bref.

"Aun' Peggy knowed w'at wuz gwine on all dis time, en she fix' up a little bag wid some roots en one thing en ernudder in it, en gun it ter dis sparrer er her'n, en tol' 'im

Er little beech bark dyes slate color set wid copper.