Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 28: what you’re looking at

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80 : OLD JUPE. asservation she ain’t round here, as sweet as honey, fer nobody’s good. She’s got suthin’ on her mind, and it’s suthin’ bad. he’s as perlite as a cat that’s after cream. She’s as soft, an’ as quiet, an’ as shiny as a rattlesnake after birds.” “Oh, auntie, for shame! Nettie’s good enough, only a little selfish. Besides, we have no cream for her to be after, apd no birds,” “ Don’no ’bout dat. She ain’t here fer nuffin’ now, I tells ye. Nor she didn’t come to please you, she ain’t so obligin’ as all dat. Course, I’s a nigger, an’ hain’t no sense ; neder do I knows w’at your sister hates you fer; but J’ve seed it, and dat’s so/ T says to Jupe las’ night, arter he’d got done gnawin’ his bone, ‘I don’ like Miss Parcell; Pve seen mis- chief in her eye. If she could make trouble, she would!’ Jupe, he grumbled, an’ growled, an’ rubbed his shins, and Says he, ‘ Clar’, I declar’ dat idea am jes’ gittin’ tru’ my wool,’ and ’m shuah you would a-thought he had fleas, de way he scratched his head, tryin’ fur to make it out.” | “Tm afraid youre prejudiced against Mrs. Parcell, auntie.” “TI know I desarbe a whippin’ for to be talking so ’bout your people, Miss Bryant; but Ts got it in my head, and I can’t no more git it out dan you can git out a cork dat’s once ‘got down in a bottle—so /” The young wife, warm-hearted and innocent, was not at all affected by the admonitions of Auntie Clare. She thought Nettie very much improved, taking more trouble to please, and being less sarcastic than ever before. She enjoyed her society, in Luke’s absence ; altogether, as time wore on into midsummer, it sped faster, for the waiting wife could begin to see the end of the long absence, distant, but not intermin- able. About this time, also, she made an excellent sale of a piece of land, which Luke had desired her to dispose of, if Opportunity should oceur. An eastern gentlemen coming to New Bristol to settle, selected it as a fine site for a dwelling, and paid her five hundred dollars in cash for it. The pay- ment was made partly in specie, partly in bank-notes of va- rious descriptions, “Tf you are going to lay that money aside,” said Nettie, comiicloookks.conn