The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-13

and now you brace up and take de oaf.,'
"Oh, Nanny the lady walled, II
cannot do 1t. 1 don't think Jack would
like it."
Cant see. honey, what Massa Jacks
got to do wifi 1t. He's dead and buried
But If you can't take de oaf, I'll go see
if l can't do it fer you. Anyhow, Use
gwine to investigate Marse Phil Sheri-
dan and git them carriage horses back,
IL | has to prtend to take pizen to do
it,"
Nanny" put on her brightest BAN
danna handkerchief, a clean white
apron, and started for the camp, which
was about a mile distant.
In about an hour Nanny" walked
back into the large yard in front Of
the house, leading by each hand a
carriage horse, wearing a brand new
halter around his neck. The mistress
saw her coming and met her at the
front gate.
How on earth did you get them.
Nanny" inquired the lady.
Mammy's black face was damp with
perspiration and her fat chest fairly
painted for breath. She said: Lem
me set down on de grass, honey, and
cotch my bref. Set down by me an
I'll tell yo all about it. l go to de
campt and / asked two or three men
in uniforms with muskets in dey
hans to tell me whar l could find
Marse Phil Sheridan.
What do you want with him?'
OATS my business says /. At
ter skirmishing round foun' de
generals tent. 1 walks in and draps
my best curtsey 'Sarvant, Marse
General says.
"'what kin 1 do for you. madam
he says.
~ amt no madam. Marse Gem
/ seed twinkle in his eyes, and he
eral; Use plain ole black nanny
says
"Wel, Nanny, what kin 1 do fer
yo?
An bless you soul. honey, he said
that nanny jes as natural as if he
had ben a born gentleman. Den 1
splained dat his soldiers had stole
my niistis' carriage horses as we'll as
ev'y othah good boss on de place L
tole him he might keep the other
horses if i couldn't get 'em out of
him, but dat 1 must have the car
riage horses, for my mistis was a
lady and her foot WASN'T quainted wild
de groun'.
But your mistress Is a REBEL said
Marses General.
Den l says: I don know nothin'
uOuI no TeDel, MdrSet General. l les
knows dat my mistis' foot amt quaint
ed wild de groun', and I'se boun' to hab
dose carriage HOSES back.
wild dat, Marse General laugh and
hollered to a man not very far off, all
dressed UP in blue clothes and brass,
and saws:
Come here. Major; here's some
thin fer yo' to hear
But when Marse General said dat
seed a twinkle in his eye, and l
knowed somethin' I'd said hit him in
de right place. De Major come, an
tole EN- bofe de same tale AS 1 got
through the major and the general
laughed, and de general says:
Well, Nanny, il YOU recognize
the carriage bosses you shall have
them.
And dey riz up bofe Of senf.. to go
wild me to- the pen whar the soldiers
had put the bosses dey stole AS we
went long says ss+ y. fsss
H'Marse General, of aose knows my
own HOSES, but dem bosses gwine to
recognize me de minute dey slap eyes
on me-
AN. 70 God, de minute dey saw
me comm twixt dem two fine white
men dey pricks up dey ears an trotted
up to me jes is natural as if dey had
been circus bosses. And. mistis, de
general tole one Of de soldiers to put
brand new halters on desc horses
necks and han 'em over to Nanny.
and here dey is, and l amt took no oaf
nor nothin' else ~