Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-20

~ OhhnNer FROM the EAOduH.
Now, Miss Friendly, you's too compass
iOnable desc yere niggahs poses on you.
Go' amt got one speck oh begrudgefulness
or mistrustfulntss in yo from de sole Oh yoro
foot to de soul oh yore head an, 30 long as
a niggah tells bout his misery yol belieb.
an us long as you's got nickel yo'll glib. |
allus said yo'd end up by not habin Il cent O
money to carry to hebben wild yo'. | amt
got no patience wild desc niggahs dat's a-ex-
odusin an a-trampooselin' aroun' de country
spectin de Lord to rain quail an toast on
'em likes He did on the children oh Moses.
an a-hghtin' dem up all de way wild pillow
oh fab vout DER habin to pay fur de kero-
sene. Tell yo what, de chillen oh dis we're
exodus has to git out deir ole tin lanterns an
der taller dips if dey wants light for der
journey i'll de nighttime"
"Mingo," | said, nther sternly, Il have
noticed It as a Characteristic OF your race that
you do not reach out helping hand to each
other. Here you are well to do, with your
little farm and your snug cabin living a lone
ly, selfish life, and boarding up money, I've
no doubt though you've never chick or
child to leave it to. If you could have gone
into Wyandotte with me to-day, and seen the
poor creatures huddled together in droyos
you would have felt some pity for them. Min
go, you ought to 80 down and adopt some
homeless child, who would repay your kind
ness by caring for you in your old age"
"Brcss go heart Miss Friendly what could
/ do wild chile A batchelder amt got no
business wild chillen. I'd be bringin dsre-
spec on de Deep water Baptises dey's done
took me fur member. Specs folks nd say
I'd better dopt an ole woman 70 l took in
any chillen.'
Very we'll, Miuso go down, then, and
pick out Il wife.
Law, Miss Friendly, of you'd had Dc spec
renee Is had, you'd be under de same d,pres-
sion bout women-folks dat is.
"Iiow did you come to have such n poor
opinion Of u.s. Mngo;'
Dress .yo' sweet face, didn't say had a
poh opinion of EN-. Deys all angels, course
day is-present company excepted"
There MingO, I'm not provoked, for I
know you intended to be especially polite.
But when you use the phrase present com
pany excepted it ought to follow something
in general way unpleasant, for it means eX-
cept the person you are talking to. Don't
you see, if you had said, Women are all dis
agreeable, and then added, except you Miss
Friendly, should have felt more iattered
Much 'bleeged to you for splainin dat ar
nebber could zactly understan' it bcfo. |
was a-gwine fur TO say dat | made up my
opinion bout women from my ole miss, an
she war de NOSE unpleasantsome person eb-
ber libbed in dis yere worr-present eompny
excepted. Dar, done got it right dis yere
time | reckon"
You need not try to improve it, but it
seems to me that your statements are a little
contradictory. In what way was she un-
pleasant 2"
''Well, Miss Friendly, rs gwine to tole you
sumhn. De only unpleasantsome ting dat
lady done to me was when she sole me. l
shouldn' a asked no better hebben dan jes TO
hab libbed on her slave to de close of dis
yere mortal life"
IF you cared so much for your mistress,
why did she sell your"
"Oh . jes 'caus l was a mizzable, goOd-for-
muffin, sneakin', lazy, no-account, lynn, steal
in, sassy niggah, dat's all She nebber could
get de wuff OBJ her money out oh me no I'D
der way. She want no fool ef she war a
lady. CUB her a sight OBJ trouble. an she
war mighty good to me. | amt noflin agin
her but her sellin' me- an | reckon her pa
tience sorter took to rarin and declared it
wouldn't work in de harness wild sch "A lazy
critter as me no longer As | told you befo
Miss Friendly, don ask for no better heb
ben when gets to dc new Jerusalem dan for
her to buy me back agin. You wouldn' a
cotch my missus bein' cheated by any land
CUB to dose dat was anime to tramp arter it.
She was de smartest woman de Lord ebber
made, an women is mosely smarter an bet
tern men. Is hcerd dat spained 'cordin' to
de law OF condensation DE Lord He made
um women 80 hc done CUB 'em more smart
ness au goodness an good-lookin'ness den
de men folks TO make up fur DER not bein
able to vote If you jes' 'qwire into dis yere
exodus swindle, yo'll fine dat de men-folks
was de- NOSE Centrally took in, an' dat de
women didn't take no pride in it.
We had dis same ting in Souf Carliny
jes arter dc wah. man come aroun' wild
little flags an' long stakes, an he done tole
us dat de gubment lowed to glib ebbery mig
gah forty acres oh lam an a mule, and dat
pooty soon n agent would be rOun' wild de
mules, an show MS whar TO stake out de Ian.
But de man said we mus be perwided wild
desc stakes oh his, wild dc flags on de end oh
'em, TO stick at de fO' corners oh our Ian.
He sole de stakes TO us fur a dollar apiece,
an den we sot down an waited fo de udder
man wild de mules, but he nebber come.
Wish had dem fo' dollars now. De married
men dey didn' get cotched in no sich fool
trap. DER wives wOuldn' let 'em hab de
money. Oar war Marin Phyllis dat armed
sich a sight a-washin' fo' de white folks an
a totin' de cloze home fbe mile on her head,
she warn't a-gwine TO let her husband Lazy
Pete, desquander her arnins dat way-no,
Sab. She put her fo' dollars in a ole stockin'
toe, an hid it up de chimley. An dat trifin'
Rose Cinnamon, dat had de hard -workin'
plasterer an whitewasher fur husband, had