"Nursing a nigger in her own house with her own hands," was the fashion of describing this untoward spectacle.

" "What 'bout the nigger on watch?" broke in Jones hoarsely.

He told pa the law of Kentucky made the crime of trifling with a slot machine the same as breach of promise, or arson, and that he would be lucky if he got off with ten years in the pen, with 30 days' solitary confinement in a Turkish bath cell, with niggers for companions.

But I think he is quixotic and sentimental; and all this stuff about those niggers at the Cedars is moonshine.

The row waked the Nigger from his sullen abstraction.

Chorus: So early in the morning, &c. I was close up stuck in a rotten bog; I got a buster jumping a log; I found this scouting rather hot, So I joined the niggers with the lot we’d got.

you don't imagine I'm comparing a nigger to a thoroughbred, sir!"

The compelled exercise contributed its part; and by the time the mate, to use his own expression, "had run the nigger into dock," which meant when he had got him safe within the hut, his senses and faculties had so far revived as to enable him to think and to speak.

But, dear me, if I believed Deacon Steal'em's talk, I should think it was just about the pleasantest thing in the world to be sold; and that the niggers down South had nothing 'pon earth to do but to lick treacle and swing on a gate.

Dere wuz ole Mars Henry Brayboy's niggers, en ole Mars Jeems McLean's niggers, en Mars Dugal's own niggers; den dey wuz a settlement er free niggers en po' buckrahs down by de Wim'l'ton Road, en Mars Dugal' had de only vimya'd in de naberhood.

Dey sot us niggers out in de yard to eat, but many a night I'se slept with Miss Fanny.

The hell-hound who kicked you is a Portugee, and LeVere is more nigger than anything else.

"A nigger by the name of Sandy Campbell, a servant of old Mr. Delamere.

The fact is, it ain't a big enough place for a nigger of yore ability, Peter.

" "Well," replied the Texan, "anythingno country at allis better than having niggers over you.

"All de Niggers on de Tatum place had dey own patches where dey could plant what ever day wanted to.

She said she had thrown away years of self- sacrifice, years of washing, a thousand little comforts her money would have bought, all for nothing, for less than nothing, to ship a fool nigger up North and to ship him back.

There wasn't no trouble on my mother's place, but they had heard that there was an uprising among the slaves, and they called all the Niggers up to the house.

Looks like I could if a nigger like you could, Siner."

The niggers around here ain't strong for you now; some say you're a hoodoo; some say this an' some that.

" "I am willing to acknowledge they are; but they have nigger blood in them, notwithstanding; and they are, therefore, as much niggers as the blackest, and have no more right to associate with white children than if they were black as ink.

I had been wondering since the moment when he had ordered me to let go my grip of the Kanaka in the f'c'stle, if he was afraid that any disagreement between me and the knife-thrower would start trouble with the crew, but from the way he hazed the niggers during the storm I was convinced that it was not through any fear of them that he ordered me to leave my assailant alone.

De nigger inside de tree kotched her by de tail an' pulled hisself out.

But he had made her understand that their children were to be sold, at his convenience, and that he "would not have more than three little niggers about the house at one time.

We might bring the nigger through the hole!"