15/16 I an't used to workin' unless I gets whipped.' So Miss Ophelia tried it. Topsy would scream and groan and implore. But half an hour later she would be sitting among the other little niggers belonging to the house, laughing about it. 'Miss Feely whip!' she would say, 'she can't do it nohow.' 'Law, you niggers,' she would go on, 'does you know you's all sinners? White folks is sinners too--Miss Feely says so. |