But thar aint no danger of his comin back agin, I reckon.

'Pears as if it hadn't been long since I followed him to dis very grave." "What!" said the Northern gentleman, "were niggers allowed to attend Washington's funeral ?" "Colored people was, sir," said Bacchus, in a dignified manner.

"We aint much used to being called niggers, sir.

We calls ourselves so sometimes, but gentlemen and ladies, sir, mostly calls us colored people, or servants.
General Washington hisself, sir, always treated his servants with politeness.

I was very well acquainted with them, and know'd all about the general's ways from them." Mr.Weston could not but smile at the reproof Bacchus had given.