| This nerves the African, naturally patient, timid... 345 |
[Jan. 28th, 2010|02:21 am] |
This nerves the African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising, with heroic courage, and leads him to suffer hunger, cold, pain, the perils of the wilderness, and the more dread penalties of recapture
The simple morning meal now smoked on the table, for MrsShelby had excused Aunt Chloe?s attendance at the great house that morningThe poor soul had expended all her little energies on this farewell feast,?had killed and dressed her choicest chicken, and prepared her corn-cake with scrupulous exactness, just to her husband?s taste, and brought out certain mysterious jars on the mantel-piece, some preserves that were never produced except on extreme occasions
?Lor, Pete,? said Mose, triumphantly, ?han?t we got a buster of a breakfast!? at the same time catching at a fragment of the chicken
Aunt Chloe gave him a sudden box on the ear?Thar now! crowing over the last breakfast yer poor daddy?s gwine to have to home!?
?O, Chloe!? said Tom, gently
?Wal, I can?t help it,? said Aunt Chloe, hiding her face in her apron |
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