And what do you think her cousin said ?" "'Pleased,' I suppose, 'to hear it.'" "Not a bit of it.

She said, if I belonged to her, she would cut off my thumbs; her husband said, 'Oh, then he couldn't pick cotton.' As to my poor thumbs, it did not seem to be taken into account what it would cost me to lose them.

My ole Miss used to have a lot of books.

She would let me read any one of them except a novel.

She wanted to take care of my soul, but she wasn't taking care of her own." "Wasn't she religious ?" "She went for it.