Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-04-10

to 90 down and see to the plantation. You
know your master is away Just now, and
he trusts everything TO YOU
'Jis' you keep your mind easy about ebe-
rv ting answered the faithful servant. u
reck on Massa lef you in my care too, and
isn't gwne to let you worret yourself sick,
about things in which you hab no consarn
no how is sot de niggers to work alore
cum up here, and ] guess Massa ill say
agin when he comes home as he did aiore,
da, he had great mind to run Oft and stay
! for eber, and den his forum would be
made here in no time. So jlst up and
tells him, and advises him what he ought
to do, and says 'Massa Frank i,s jIs so
when you is home dey takes advantage,
da,'s de reason dere isn't SO much work
done.''
oh. know YOU are . first rate overseer,
Ludy but who has been frightening you
lately p
Brighten me, Miss Mary? Nobody in
de arth could do dat. Muffin less dan a
sperit ;-and you knows dere is no stannin
up agin dem. Dey comes from way OFT
some whar, and dey nebber comes for no
if KEEP all de niggers in, he would not hurt
'em'
sWhat did you speak to it, Lndy:'
Shore and sar,in did, and says 'whats
dat, oh speri.? Wha, does you mean by
sayln dat you wont hurt de niggers. You
doesn', mean to make a ceplalIon Of my
while people, does you? = Den he raises
himself up and he says, moanin like, 'oh
no, oh no. oh no. jis so.' But hanl be-
gun nv story rlgh,, Missus,' continued Lu-
dy, 'and must mystify my inlefex by re-
tracin 10 de commencin' she added, in the
high-hown style SO universal among the
better class Of slaves al The South, who in
variably pick up all the high dick they
meet with, and endeavor TO ornament and
give importance to their conversation BY
'mysIifying their intellex' with i. on all
occasions.
You see Mssns,' she continued, 'when
you was all in bed las, night, and had so,
| in Miss Emma's room ill seed her 60 to
sleep wild my two eyes, though, I'd g"
in my room, jinen hern, and SET down in
my old rockn chat, and have liltle nap
| afore went TO sleep, by way Of resting
myself. Well then ! sot rockin, and "a
r"ckin, and thinkin of dis pain in my leg,
and dis misery in my back, and dat whiz-
zn da, gifts in my head, till feels quite
<pazznmy, and coudn'. sleep no how
Well, presently hears sill noise, out a
doors, and den hears Growler bark, bul
SIGH bark, MIsssus, it warn't like muffin
human, and knowd right of dere was
speril comm. So gifts riIe up, for warm.
skeer'd ID bi,,-I know'd ii couldn't be help
ed-and ! goes t" my chisi, and gifts out
Iillle white bag full Of chsrInin things. which
no body never seed, and which a conf urin
man gIb my nanny long time ago to keep
sperils off wild, and turns round seven times
Gordon to de receipt, and den ] goes to del
windsr which was up, and ! reaches ou.
my hand aud shuck il wild de greatest WI
ruIence. Den ! co,ch i. jis SO, and holes
i, out, and Pokes out my he'd, and dere.
Mss Mary, right under my windsr, dere
stood 6e speri', jIst as plain as see dem
dar ,ongs'
'Whal did i, look like, Ludy p said Mrs.
Fonlaine, seeing that the narrator expected
some remark, after SD thrill a recital.
'We never can see sperits plain answered
LuGy, sdey never is what dey looks like,
and ] was a wonderin tn myself since, how
deceivin dis one was. Why. Mi>suS, when
fus, looked out, | could hab swesrd dat
he look'd zaclly like man wild white trou-
sers and ha, on. But appearances are
muffin wld sperils, and aiore be went away
seed dat he was as big as six men, aud
what took in my wigelance for hat was
something white and cloudy, and KEEP mo-
vim all abou. his head
You say. YOU spoke to him, Ludy. Wha,
did he say =
Yes Nlssus did speak. You see when
he seed me ratllin da, white bag, be comes
rite up TO de windar, and he said, | heer'd
him wild my own ears, is ia, you charmer?
Fear muffin dis is me, and den | leans
right out. and says, 'Speri,, what does you
want wild me havn't harmed you none,
and what makes You leave your grave and
come here a dis,urbn de wigls ob dis in
nocent family ? Den be SAYS muffin but
isl Looks righ, up a, me, and looks down
a, him, still clulchn on To- de bag wild de
charms in it, Den he says 'oh, is ii you p
Den he goes away a lillle way jist as fast
as he could den he turns right round and
cohes agih, dhu lie says, grodnil', anu
groanin, and groanin, as told you afore,
and he says, mus keep all de niggers in
a, night, and den he would not hurt em
and den it was dat | ak, in de name of
Belzerbub, wedder he made cepta,ion OBJ
de white foks.'
On you mus have been dreaming, Lu-
dy,' said Mrs. F., thoroughly tired of the
narration.
'Jis' hear you now, child,' answered Lu-
dy, you is jis like Miss Emma. Dat baby
has sich awfuI!y ligh. idees about sich
things, dat know If il was not for me dey
would come in the flesh and unveal dem