New-York tribune., 1880-02-29


and n cook selected by Charlotte's self, VINO
was perfectly frightful Did not ChaTi,otIe
stay one solid week, and did not MRS. DAu1
bigny welcome her back aBost WIN tears oa
ioy so unutterable had been the hOrroIs ol
her absence2 If Diana chose to prove 10 me
how i'll | could hive without ber, VINO "as l.
"mere worm o the dust" as II were' 20 pro-
test against her will and pleasure dOod
servants are rare-tataily rare you oaIe n.y. ~,
refuse n valuable one anything, from weeks
holiday TO an afternoon out" from y street.
car ticket, please M" 10 the dress that You
wear =,
Diana went the next morning. She also re-
Turned not oh not by two days as soon as
She nron,ised but she returned ; she returned,
and 10 her credit be 1t recorded. she brought
back to me what was to her considerable
sum- the change OF a large bil which en-
trusted to her to get out OF 1t her wages IL
beihg the only money had about me when
she knocked at my door i'll the gray morning
and reminded me that she wanted 70 10 tiaVcI
with | staked that bill on her fidelity, and
was not disappointed.
not TO the purpose scarcely more so the truiy
neighborly loving kindness OF Mrs; DAu-
bgny who sent me her own COOK 10 oTeSs NY
Sunday dinner; but at last Diana retuTneu
before breakfast | heard her usual grumbung
tones-never so welcome as now-ln tne pack
porch. Gordon had left the room, and called
her. She came in, still wearing her oest heau-
gear-a white hat-and her gay, thin shawl.
Did you get your Children Dlaha
asked.
Yes, maam I" emphatically. But Mars
| Gordon ought to g gin me dat paper dough-
| | had to fight fer 'em." -,
bering how once she "lald MAZE out wild IL
II did for a fac fit three on em."
"Why, how was that, Diana r.
"Wcl, Miss Jasmin, de fust | saw When
got off at de Pint wuz Pete hisse'f, down dar
| TO meet de train wild wagon an mule,
spectn' his Uncle Jim on de tram, ne ,rIc
me dey want gwlne to femme ha O!I'h9,
wagon, but / wouldn' do it; | knowd dey
didn' want me III none o DER wagon"
- Had they received your letter about
Cyn!hiaW ao,. w,v dov srectcd
| I'd be comm long after her. Well, walked
ON TO Sist Calne's, an Kernanny she got
| tired an | had to tote her piece o de Why's
| Sist' Calline live bout two n'iies rom jim
| sons. an bout three from de Pint, whar |
done left de train. staid all night at SlsV
You didn't see Cynthia at all the first
da!y{y -, Nov, dov went fer her. Nv
bre'r, Tom, he went longer me, maxim tense
| like as he was my side. An' when l got
dar he done turned agiD' me! But III en-
You did 2"
81 ins' up an tole 'em | had a lawyers
| 'pinions an de lawyer stood ready to SlT u
tifkid dat / could ha' my chlllun, an dat
| Mars Gordon say | could jus call my chlllnh,
an eli dey dldn follow rae ! could ha' de law
! on 'e!n, nm t0le 'em Mars Gordon 'ud SHOW
'em law ef dcy wanted 1t; and den my own
brudder-'seetlul thing he say, On, Sis
I'd let 'em lone we bin al roun' to an 9e
white folks in dc nelEhbO' 'h00d, an all de
white folks doy say You couldn't take em
onfwelI dcy was twenty oner And say,
Toa is, is yoH You bin to all de WhHee
folks, is you I Come right out here, den,' l
say, an iH drink yOar biood 7"
"Yes, maam, | was Il bilin' den Cynthy. she
was cryin all dc time, she was so feared
| dey'd git dc bes' ob me. But say, 'Cynthy, la;
| chile, don you shed one tear; don you shed
one tear | say, cause Use gwlne TO ma
COnsOing for Cynthia but you made
them give her up, did youT
"Yes'm. Dey wanted to make up after |
done cleaned up dc crowd, an asst me TO come
in, an talk an set spell; but, no ST
wouldn' no more set my foot in der house!
| Den dey promust to lemmc ha Cyntby dc
| mex day, an when ! went after her, she Want
dar. Dey'd done hid her out I'D de swamp;
an' 1 tole jim Jimson ef he didn' go an bring
me dat chile | wouldn't leave two logs toged-
| der in dat dar house o ms'n. An got her
| Yesm, | did he had TO fetch her. Her aunt
! Fanny give her all her clO'es, too, NEE clo'es.
| Dat chile is fixed ont. / spected Jimson t.
| gimme her railroad ticket, too; bat You sleeve
me, he wOuldn' gimme cent, Miss Jasmln !
! Dat niger never 50 much as gin me "
nickel =
"What did you do about Peter ?"
| 81 TUX him an hired him ont up dar.
man taken mm an prOmust to gimme niX
dollars fer him mt Chrlsmus. He's TO board
! him. too Niger never make nuthlH when
Inc spen' all his time twix' de smOke-hOuse an
dc slore-rOOn ; eat hsseT clean out o wages
| fore Chris mus"
/ saw Diana's daughter later in the day.
| She was a neat, active. quick little glrl, APP
| IL,
| and frightened when asked to hand anything.
Such thing as Il cOal-scuttle, fender
vase or salt-cellar was evidently unknown
to her, and might as well have called for
it in Hebrew so far as her conprehonslohs
"Nuvver bin in white follses houses in her
life,n Diana explained, hall -scOrnful, half
apOlOgetc. Nothing exceeds negr0's con
tempt for another who has been raised by
| a niger"
A day or two later Diana told me a tale of
such cruclties IA Mortified me the victims
having been tins shy, quick girl and her
| brother.
"Miss Jasmin, jes' bin dragsin' it out o
dat gal how her uncle Jim Jimson bin a treatin'
| of her. La, Miss Jasnin, ct had but knOwed
it fore | LEI dar l-Dey amt nuvver had no
chlluns oh der own, an dey dunno how to
treat 'cm. Nanny tole me dey'd bin a run
min away from der uncle Jim an hidln' out
| in de swamp. an' | wanted to know dc rea-
son why. Dis yer Cynthy, she's done showed
| me de sears he's lef' on her. Beat her
Beaten amt no name for it. One time she
run away, kase he was so mean TO her an
she heeTd 'em comm to hunt fer her, an she
say size crawled under de bresh-heap an nc
didn' fin her; an den she crope out an run
TO her gran'mas, an Nanny. she went an
ole jim JimsOn to come after her. An her
aunt Fanuy-she's de one taught her sew and
guy dc chile all she gOt-she tried TO make
her husband let Cynthy lone so he would'n
whip her III de house; he TUX her of in de
| au1 4 Iqf m "A
les danged, her foots sca'cey scrapn dc
groun' an he beat dat chile twell- Miss