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Old Creole Days

CHAPTER XV
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Is that yo' yallah boy, Jools?
Fetch him along, Colossus.

It seems like a special provi_dence_ .-- Jools, do you believe in a special provi_dence ?_" Jules said he did.
The new-made friends moved briskly off, followed by Baptiste and a short, square, old negro, very black and grotesque, who had introduced himself to the mulatto, with many glittering and cavernous smiles, as "d'body-sarvant of d'Rev'n' Mr.Jones." Both pairs enlivened their walk with conversation.

Parson Jones descanted upon the doctrine he had mentioned, as illustrated in the perplexities of cotton-growing, and concluded that there would always be "a special provi_dence_ again' cotton untell folks quits a-pressin' of it and haulin' of it on Sundays!" "_Je dis_," said St.-Ange, in response, "I thing you is juz right.

I believe, me, strong-strong in the improvidence, yes.

You know my papa he hown a sugah-plantation, you know.


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