The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-02-23

gAHb ohs VI kho Ooek Wuucu ever
knew.
Her husband, tall, gaunt, grim
visaged and aged mulatto, escorted
me from the gate, past a guard of
furious dogs, to her bed. He sat on
the edge OF IL with his back turned
broadly towards her, holding In his
hand a small brass lamp that was
little more than q taper, and the on
ly illumination of the gloomy room.
"Yes'm, faint worth while ter try
ter hide 1t, she's passin' away as
fast as she kin, Miss Kate, he said,
perfectly obllyious that his words
might jar on sensitive ears. ssShe
is just as helpless as a chunck. She
has ter 20 through the tares er death
sum time if she was ter live fifty
years, and she is ready and willin'
ter 60 now. and ID is better fer her
ter 90. She never will be no man.
ner Nv ercount i'm dis life again.
! glanced in helpless pity at the
closed lids of the poor wife, through
which few tears were stealing, at
the tightly compressed lips, and
tried vainly TO restrain him. "I'll
say dis fer Sarah," he continued in
a tone of thunder, "dat she will
make three wives / have buried
and she is the only woman never
ketched tellin' me nv story. /
cotch all the balance tellin' me slo-
riesD IL struck me that he said IL
with a note Of triumph. "But
never kGtched Sarah. DIR. Buck
toIe me when married her, see he,
Abraham. you has got er truthful
woman, an | found his words cum
true, just like he said"
| motioned him imperalively a.
way, and taking the dark, worn
hand in my own, / said, 81 know,
Aunt Sarah, you are ready to 90,
but it IS people like you that we
want to stay in this world TO help
TO make ii better. You must try TO
get WELL" ~ does, does, Miss
Kate, )" she earnestly replied, "but
Gods will, his holy, his righteous
will, be done. Don't mind whut
dat pore creter says she added
excusingly, "he's plum broke down
waitin' on me, liftin' me up and
down. He has ter wash, and cut
wood, and feed the stock and chick
ems and things, and scramble round
and git me sumthin' 10 eat. He is
so tired and deef that, when night
cum, he sleeps like q log. l can't
wake him, and" her voice breaking
at the recollection, 81 dies a thou
sand deaths fer want Nv help. But
| has ter jo il, I has ter jo It," /
left her with heavy heart, fearing
the worst.
A few days later Uncle Abraham
came to tell me of the particulars
Of her death. about the turn NV
the night | woked up an heard her
a callin' me. Abraham says she,
i got er chokin' in my throat
Stand fast Sarah,' says /, stand
fast Don't pay no tention Ter de
fiictions nv de body, put yer trust
IN de Lord settin' on his dazziln'
Lhrone.' She required Nv me ter
make her sum sut tea, but / toIe
ler no, just ter stand fast 'ls you,'
| said, is you shore, Sarah, dat you
q willin' and ready ter 20 p De
question seemed ter put new life in
ler. why, certainly she said, Il
I'M willin' ter 20 with my Lord
She tole me ter tell you particular
er meet her in her eternal home.
pll have ter git away from here,
Miss Kate,' he continued. Sarah
oesiers me. Pears like she haunts
ie place in de day time and at night.
has ter kiver up my head ter keep
rum seeing herr "But Uncle Alb
'aham,' | protested, "if you are
iure she is in heaven, where you
ay you are bound, / should think
'ou would rejoice TO have her come
'ack and tell you something of her
happiness. "Well, / don't" he
,ruffiy replied, swherever she's at
want her ter stay dar. And I'm
wine clean out nv dis country
THAR / kin be took kere nv, and
he can't poster me. Not chile,
Iot a gran-chile, not q friend, cum
ear her, ter give her a drap Nv
Eater in her Fiction" he continued
Utterly. Ode buzzards would err
ound out she wus dead fore lie Mig
ers would If sumbody hadn't lole
m. An she bust wide open before
could git one Nv them ter make
er coflin.v
Shocked and horrilied as / was, I
ould not help rejecting, ne he
poke, that the better, spiritually,
many people seem 10 consider them
elves, the more inlolerant and in
they become to their neigh
ors and those around them. Poor
I'd Uncle Abraham was not an ex-
option to this peculiarlty. AS one
Id darkey expressed II, "he SEEM
d TO think The Lord couldn't tend
D his business down here and had
eputized him to do IL Tor him." I
ad been told that be was 30 ''frao-
GUS" that no one cared or dared 10
pproach bis house. I knew ii was
seless 10 argue with him, and
'atched him hurry away rejecting
pom the strange admixturs Of right
nd wrong In bis benighted soul.
NorE The word "jo'' near the