Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-11-05
HE LOVED THE NEGRO

ne smoothed the cloth and put down the
"Will yuh hev some?"
OF course when Uncle Reuben, cook and
Judge says thing of that kind you al
ways take what he prescribes. So | Or
lered the shecpshead, and Uncle Reuben
went TO the kitchen TO prepare it, When
the fire was hot and the fish was cooking,
he came back TO me in his old way and
sat down on the other side of the table.
"Doin uh powah NV lynchin down thah
these days, ~ he said.
Sweeping some of 'em off, Uncle Reu-
ben. !"
"Didn't I nevah tell yuh bout tina time
they lynch Jene9 Didn't | neyah tell yuh
bout th,'? Oh, tha' was uh time. Yuh
see, Jene was thu meanes' niggah in west
Ten see Evahbody say tha' bout him.
He was too mean faw thu buzzads tub pick,
an tha's sho' bad Jene was one Nv us
tha' is, he was one NV thu family, an
raised in thu house wiv thu othah good
niggahs, but Jene was mean lax nobody
knows.
Somehow, Miss Cha'ity think whole
lot NV Jene, an she try all she kin tub
make him good. But Jene is JUS SO nachul
she try an try an do all she kin, but Jene
kahn be saved. He des simply ain no
good. He got mixed wiy uh bad bunch,
an bimeby he gifts intuh balm burnin
crowd Yuh knows bout balm burners?
They's sho' bad folks, Jene got mixed
wiv 'em, as I'm sayin, an thah was hahd
times faw uh niggah.
"Thah was des one thing tina KEEP Jene
fun bein hung, an tina was thu love what
Mistah Harry had faw him. Yuh see,
Jene took keer NV Mistah Harry and Mis-
tab Harry, bein uh gemmen, was pow
full fond NV Jene. He save .enc's life
onct.
zone night all thu folks they's settin
out on thu front poch talkin when uh lot
Nv men they rid up tub thu front gate an
ask faw Marse Tom Baxtah. Marse Tom
was settin wiv thu folks an not thinkin
nothin wrong, an Mistah Harry, whut
want mo- an 10 yeahs old was settin by
Marse Tom. When thu gemmen rode up
tub thu big gate, Mistah Harry he got all
tub onct interested Marse Tom he go
down tub thu big gate tuh see thu gem
men, an Mistah Harry ben small an not
much noticed followed long aftah HIM
When Marse Tom met thu gemmen, they
say they want Jene.
"'Wha' faw, say Marse Tom.
"'Faw burnin uh balm, say thu gem
men.
'Jene been burnin uh balm? say
Marse Tom.
can when thu gcmmen they say yes
Marse Tom he kindah mournful lax say,
'Gemmen, / reckin yuh have tub take
him..
"Little Mistah Harry he hearn tina an
he slip away fun thu crowd an he go run
min todes thu house. He KEEP goin roun
tub whah thu niggahs live an he see ,)cne.
Soon as he sec thu niggah he say, '.Iene,
they's done come faw yuh, yuh bettah run.
Take ma yellow pony an git outen thu
county.
".Jene he's so skeered he don know
whut tub do, an fo he kin git outen
sight, 'roun come Marse Tom.
"He says, 'Jene, yuh been mighty good
tub Harry, an want tub save yuh but
youse uh bad niggah an evahbody knows
bout it. Eff save yuh fun thu mob, will
yuh do whut I say?'
"Uv cose, Jene was willin tub do any
thin tuh git away. So Marse Tom he go
down tub see thu gemmen at thu gate an
he say: 'Gemmen, Jene is up at thu house
Yuh kin git him ef yuh wants him. Yuh
knows 1 done raised Jene in this family
an kindah hate tub have him hung
Now, ef I promise yuh tha' I will take
Jene outen thu county tuhnight an tina
he won nevah come back no mo- F., will yuh
let him go2'
"Well, thah was uh lot Nv talk, an bime-
by thu leadah he say: 'Mistah Tom, we'll
take yo' word. Ef yuhll move him intuh
Arkansaw an promise thu county he II stay
thah, We'll let him off on yo' account.
Marse Tom he Civ his word, what was lax
uh bond In tha' county, an thu mob they
rode away.
"Putty soon Marse Tom he kun down
tub thu stable and he say, Saddle up
Queen an Night. Them's thu bes' two
hosses we got in thu balm. When l git
'em saddled, he say, 'Whah's JeneS Evah-
body go lookin faw Jene We kahn fin
him nowhah. Marse Tom he's sho wor-
ried, kase he done said he d move him out
Ell thu county. Thah was thu hosses sad
died an Marse Tom all ready, but thah
want no Jene We look an look an we
don fin him. Marse Tom is des ready tub
cuss when somebody say, 'Whah's Mistah
Hary?'
"Marse Tom he kindah think uh little
an then he walk intuh thu big house kin
dah slow, lax he don wan tub 60 Whut
yuh reckinp Marse Tom he went right
on tub whah Mistah Harry bin sleepin
sence he was big nough tub sleep by his
self an thah they was, Mistah Harry, white
an sweet, uh lyin in bed wiv his arm 'roun
tha' wuthless niggah Jene, an Jene uh
snorin LAX uh sick hoss.
"Marse Tom he look at em lyin thah SC
still, an then he kindah wipe his eyes an
he grab Jene by thu arm an pull him out
en- thu bed. 'Jene, he say, 'yuh mus
come wiv me- An he TUX Jene an he put
him on Night an he TUX him away.
1t was mighty late when Marse Tom
come back, an thu hosses was all covered
wiv sweat lax they's bin uh long way.
Marse Tom ddn' hev nothin tub say mon
tub keep thu hosses dry an his face was
mighty white when he walk up todes thu
big house. All us niggahs is tremblin al
worryin kase we didn't know whut time
we mightn' go intuh Arkansaw ourselves
We dom know bout tha', but anyhow We
don see Jene no mo-.
mex mawnin Mistah Harry he wake
up an take uh look 'roun, an he don sec
no niggah He git outen thu bed an he
20 lookin faw Jene. He look down in thu
cabins and he look in thu balm. He look
all ovah thu place an he dom see no Jene
Then he TUX thu dinnah horn-Jene could
allus heah uh dinner horn furthah than
any niggah on thu place. An Mistal
Harry, he blow all he blow but he don
heah no Jene answerin tub his call. Ther
he come down whah us niggahs is livin al
he ask whah Jene is. Ain nobody kir
tell him. Then he go back tub thu houst
an he ask Miss Cha'iy whah Jene Is
Miss Cha'iy look at him kindah sor'fu
lax an she tell him she don know. She
des kahn tell him thu truf.
"Then Mistah Harry he fin Marse Ton
an he ask him whah Jene is. Marsc Ton