The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-24

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an stopped it. We had fghtin,
enuff widout any of dat.
'Lordy! Dem was de times! Does
you-all member dem times, boss?'
And l, thinking of the stir in the
level prairie land where | was born,
of the crowded roadside stations, Of
my own excitement, of my mothers
tears and the marching of lusty men,
forgot myself and lost for a moment
the thread of the story.
''Yassir! Cunnel Chamblee went
an l went-kinder to ten on Mas
Lemule-but de Of master he didn't
go kaze he was lame. An dat night
afore we started was over to Cum
mel Chamlee's on count of a yaller
gal dat he uster own. An whiles l
was over dar Mis- Sally see me an
she call me. She was all trimbly
lak-lak she been cryin-an' she give
me a little note an a flower for to
give ter Mas Lemule. Den when |
started off, a-holdin' dat note and dat
flower mighty keerful lax, she call
me back again.
''Tell him dat I'll be waitin' when
he comes back, Dave-yes a-waitln'
for him to come,' she say, an say,
Vas, ma'am,' an went on.
'Well, sab, dat ar note did sho'
hearten Mas Lemule up, but we lef
mex mornin' jest de same. Mas
Lemuel wuz de only one leavin' dat
mornin,' but OF miss she make mo
stir dan if it was whole regiment
dat was gwine erway.
''She didn't cry, that is, not much
-op miss warn't none O. de .cryln'
kim. But whiles young master was
eatin' an OIL master was tellln hlm
how he mus member who his daddy
is, she TUX me, quiet lax, roun' back
er de house, an she look at me hard,
lax her eyes gwine look clean through
me.
Dave says she, you bring dat
boy back home! Dead er alive, you
bring him back here, to me! Does
you hear me?' ,
can II was mighty nigh skeered
kaze huh eyes burn me so, but l
spoke up strong an answered huh,
i gwine do dat,' says I, I sholy is
"You ought to seed the way we
whipped dem Yankees up dar in
Virginny. Yassir, we whipped
Yankees fun de James river clean
down to Jehosephat. We did dat!
Whipped 'em till we wuz clean wore
outa-whuppin' 'em, an den we come
back down here for to whup 'em
some more.
"Dat was de time dat me and Mas
Lemuel an Cunnel Chamblee, all
three, coined home on a furlough.
We didn' get to stay home but two
or three days. but while we was here
Mas Lemuel he was over at the cum
nel's more'n half the time. | was
over dar right smart too, takin' on
wild dat yaller gal. I'd a heap better
stayed at home, though, for when l
fotch Mas Lemule back, dat gal was
done mah'ie to some no count mig
ger off'n de Holloway place.
''For de fus' day after we dun got
home, Mis- Sally an Mas Lemule
seem to be gettin' on fine. But de
night fore we was gwine away agin
Il was comm long by de big house
yard an | see dem two walkin' in
dar an talkin' low an mighty SOL
emn like, an I stopped under some
cedar trees an watched 'em. For a
long time dey walk dar lookin' at one
'nudder an talkin'. Den dey stopped
an Mas Lemule hol' Mis- Sally
hands tight, an his face went white
all in a minute, an den dey started
for the house.
"But when dey get to de steps
Mas Lemule stopped and wouldn't
90 no further kaze Mis- Sally been
s-tellin' him dat de cunnel was ve'y
vex an warn't gwine let 'em ma'hy
never. less'n Of master 'pologise
TO him. An Mas Lemule he say Of
master amt never gwine to do dat,
and dat he won't low it if Of master
want to, kaze de cunnel he was in de
wrong. {;
Den Mis- Sally she get vex an
say she don't low no man to say her
pa was wrong, an dey quarrel a iii
bit-den dey say goodbye: An
Mas Lemuel he walk off holdin' his
head mighty stiff an high; but Mis-
Sally she jest watch i'm till he pass
through de gate, den she set down
an cry. An it seem to me lax de
win hit cry too, lonesome lax and
mournful, in de tops of de cedars. l
got feared-I sho'ly did.
And when we went away next
morning dere warnt nobody waiting
at Cunnel Chamblee's gate and we
went by widout stopping.
"Well, we went back to our regl-
ment and we find dat de Yankees
getting mighty thick down there, and
twant long before our regiment got
put in Cunnel Chamblee's brigade.
"And den Cunnel Chamblee ne got
in desput hurry and call for volun-