--he shood say Mr. Pollock, and he hed made inquiries, and found that
one family hed sold three hundred and seventy-five dollars worth uv
truck, this season, uv which they hed laid out for clothes and books two
hundred dollars, leavin em one hundred and seventy-five dollars in cash,
which was more money than he hed made sense the accursed Linkin passed
the emancipashen proclamation. And what hed driv the iron into his soul
wuz the fact that wun of them niggers wuz _his_ nigger. "The money they
hev," pursood the Squire, "is MY MONEY; that man worth $1500 is my man;
his wife is my woman; her children my children--"
"That's a literal fact!" shouted Joe Bigler, a drunken, returned
Confederate sojer; "they hev yoor nose eggsactly, and they're the
meanest yaller brats in the settlement."
This unhappy remark endid in a slite unpleasantness, wich resultid in
the Squire's bein carried out, minus one ear, and his nose smashed.
Joseph remarked that he'd wantid to git at him ever sense he woodn't
lend him a half dollar two months ago. He was now satisfied, and hoped
this little episode woodn't mar the harmony uv the meetin.
Elder Smathers observed that he hed noticed with pain that them niggers
alluz hed money, and wuz alluz dresst well, while we, their sooperiors,
hed no money, and nothin to boast uv in the way uv close.
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