"Tell the missus it's Samuel Clegg," the old man had said, with a certain amusing conceit.

This is a common expression of the slaves to the person whipping them: "Do, Massa!" or, "Do, Missus!" After she had gone, I asked Ben what she was whipped for: he told me she had done something to displease her young missus; and in boxing her ears, and otherwise beating her, she had scratched her finger by a pin in the girl's dress, for which she sent her to be flogged.

"Wot do you want?" ses my missus, trembling with passion.

Seven complete laps of this course constituted a missus or race,[490] and the number of races in a day varied from time to time, according to the season of the year and the equipment of the particular ludi.

So I followed "the missus" into that great kitchen, and sat down in one corner of the huge fire-place while she made the tea.

I've got a missus at home.

"Ah, Masser Mile," added the old man, with tears in his eyes as he left the room, "Miss Lucy 'e only young missus now, sah!"

and I likes the missus; she's a laddyand I likes Miss Beuly, who's a swate young womanand then there's Miss Maud, who's the delight of my eyes.

"Before freedom we always went to white churches on Sundays with passes but they never mentioned God; they always told us to be "good niggers and mind our missus and masters".

Hoo's wick an' 'earty, an' I dunnot want nobry; but if I did have to pick a second missus, it shouldn't be Margaret Hep.

" "Well, dunnot thou go frettin' thysel' as how 'tis," repeated his missus with a vague attempt at consolation.

They didn't know my missus.

They bound our missus upstairs so she couldn't get away, then they came to the sheds and we begged and begged for her.

en I called my missus en she come en made me eat de rest of de turnip en my face enall swelled up en my eyes war closed foh days.