Oh, how awful! What can the child mean?
So careful, too, of her! He says we shall ruin her health making her work so hard, and sleep in such a place.

O, John! do you think he is in his right mind ?" "Yes, yes; she is slender." "Yes, YES!" she repeated sarcastically, "you know these niggers are just like black snakes; you CAN'T kill them.

If she wasn't tough she would have been killed long ago.

There was never one of my girls could do half the work." "Did they ever try ?" interposed her husband.

"I think she can do more than all of them together." "What a man!" said she, peevishly.