Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-23
CHAPTER VII.


.,or high and with brass handles tG
=, drawers; the chairs straight backed
,.om the center of the ceiling hung q
,rao1eIer of glass pendants. All this
antique maanldcence was lighted BY
,te s,ntl. tallow dip which also glis.
,.nca upon the honest face of Ginger.
81 hope yo' berry comfolem, sah,'
.o1 Ginger. setting down the candle
and turning 10 depart.
eyo doult Of 1t. Wait a bit. l want
ror N tell lie to whom this plantation
belongs.
"cunnel Rutland, sah.' So,
oBcen in this family long? :ss2
"a t'ousand years, sah." Tsf,
"What"
enont know nothn bout countin.
,Srec it's been in de family mighty
,cne time. Cunnel Rutland, he mighty
fre cenTman, sab; Cunnel Rutland,
tq own ten hundred t'ousand acres
How many"
oDe biggest plantation in all Alaba-
ma sab. Cunnel Rutland be de big
etst"-
wait a bit, Ginger. Who is Miss
Pilkley"
Missy rnklcy, she mighty fine lady,
sah Miss Pinkley, she'-
what relation is she to Colonel Rut.
snd%
Missy Pinklcy. she war Missy Rut-
lands astah. sab. Missy Pinkley,
she
Where IS Mrs. Rutlandr
"Missy Rutland. she's daid."
"Who is Miss JaQueline"
MISSY Jack. she's de fust young lady
In de souf sab. When Missy Jack go
"a de planters balls an de city balls in
Huntsville, she take all de young men
away from de udder young ladies an
make EN- all mad huff to eat her up"
"She is Colonel Rutland's daughter,
suppose
"Yes sab, Missy Jack de apple OBJ
Cunnel Rutland's eye, sab. Cunna
Rutland don care nuffen bout nobody
but Missy Jack"
How about you colored people"
"What dat sah:' 49,
DO you like Miss Jaquel!ne?"
Like Missy Jack! Reckon de culled
people do like Missy Jack. Culled peo-
pie Tub Missy Jack like de angel OBJ
isn't she just bit hot tempered"
Reckon Missy Jack is hot tempered.
SAL Missy Jack, she got de hottest
temper in de whole souf. Missy Jack,
She
Hold on: explain why you all love
Miss Jack when she has n hot temper
and speaks TO you sharply"
laws a,massy, she don mean nuf-
fen. Missy Jack, she scor wild de fire.
brand in de eye, but she won't let no.
body else scol'. Yo' ought to see dat
galwhen MarS'r Bingham-Mars' Bing-
ham, he Dc obcrseer-Mars'r Bingham
whip leuiggers. One day AIarsr Hing-
lam, heWLip me. I yelled lax n killed
niger Missy Jack, she run out wild
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