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Danny's Own Story

CHAPTER XVI
15/19

Seemingly the white folks was away fur the day, and an old nigger come up and talked to our driver while Sam and us was at the well.
I seen them cutting their eyes at us, whilst they was unchecking the hosses to let them drink too, and then I hearn the one that belonged there say: "Is yo' SUAH dat hit air dem ?" "SUAH!" says the driver.
"How-come yo' so all-powerful SUAH about hit ?" The driver pertended the harness needed some fixing, and they went around to the other side of the team and tinkered with one of the traces, a-talking to each other.

I hearn the old nigger say, kind of wonderized: "Is dey a-gwine dar NOW ?" Sam, he was pulling a bucket of water up out of the well fur us with a windlass.

The doctor says to him: "Sam, what does all this mean ?" Sam, he pertends he don't know what the doctor is talking about.
But Doctor Kirby he finally pins him down.

Sam hemmed and hawed considerable, making up his mind whether he better lie to us or not.
Then, all of a sudden, he busted out into an awful fit of laughing, and like to of fell in the well.

Seemingly he decided fur to tell us the truth.
From what Sam says that there bishop has been holding revival meetings in Big Bethel, which is a nigger church right on the edge of Bairdstown, and niggers fur miles around has been coming night after night, and some of them whooping her up daytimes too.


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