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The Littlest Rebel

CHAPTER III
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Oh, you won't?
Then I'll come up and get you," and he lurched forward.
"Look here, white man," Uncle Billy shouted, lifting the rusty ax high in the air, "you stay whar you is.

Ef you come up dem steps I'll split yo' ugly haid! I know you, Jim Dudley," he cried.

"Mars' Cary done give you _one_ horse whippin', an' ef you hang aroun' here you'll get anudder one!" Furious at the recollection of his shame of a few years back when he had been overseer on this same plantation, the Sergeant rushed up the steps and knocked the ax aside with his gun barrel.

"Yes, he did whip me, burn him, and now I'll do the same for you." Seizing Uncle Billy by the throat he pushed him against the house.
Instantly the door swung open.

Mrs.Cary, her head held high, her beautiful dark eyes blazing with wrath, stood on the threshold.
"Stop it!" she commanded in tones that brooked no disobedience even from a drunkard.


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