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Our nig

CHAPTER VI
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Impatient of delay, she called again, but with a different request.

"Bring me some wood, you lazy jade, quick." Nig rested the broom against the wall, and started on the fresh behest.
Too long gone.

Flushed with anger, she rose and greeted her with, "What are you gone so long for?
Bring it in quick, I say." "I am coming as quick as I can," she replied, entering the door.
"Saucy, impudent nigger, you! is this the way you answer me ?" and taking a large carving knife from the table, she hurled it, in her rage, at the defenceless girl.
Dodging quickly, it fastened in the ceiling a few inches from where she stood.

There rushed on Mary's mental vision a picture of bloodshed, in which she was the perpetrator, and the sad consequences of what was so nearly an actual occurrence.
"Tell anybody of this, if you dare.

If you tell Aunt Abby, I'll certainly kill you," said she, terrified.


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