Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 107: what you’re looking at

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LOOKING FORWARD. _ 99 purty cre’tur, young and bright ; ‘vid good white blood in her, too. They'd just been whippin’ her cruelly to make her give up her husband’s papers. I tol’ her wat P'd done for Nat in “de woods, and she t’ank me heartily. “Bruised, and beaten, and sore, no money, no home, no massa or missus, no chil’ren, no husband—woll, I hung ’round de ole cabin a spell, and den I starts for de Dismal Swamp. I couldn’ bring myself to hire out to Southampton people, and nobody claimed me yet; dough I heard de relatives of massa and missus was comin to ’tend to de property, which made me hurry off de faster. So I foun’ my way to de Dismal Swamp, and I live dar one whole winter, wid a band of run- aways; and de hunters got on our track one day, and dey cotchéed me, and put me up at auction and solé me—and ra a libin’ yet. “ Sometimes I wonder if I should know Sam or Dan’! if I should meet ’em down in Lousianny—dey’s growed big men now. But all T's looking forward to is to lay my poor, scarred body in de yearth, and go up to glory,” see if I can find my husband dar.” — Tt was some time after Sophy finished her story before any one felt like speaking. Then they all promised her faithfully never to repeat what they had heard—and slaves, it is proven, can keep a secret. Wo trie Cotta fully" hte spam asetign for a song or jest; the young people stole out; Hyperion gave Rose a squeeze, and a kiss which had something so earnest in it, that she neither giggled nor frowned; and he and Maum Guinea turned silently and walked’ slowly home beneath the eternal. smile of the midnight stars. . conmicloooks.conn