Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 149: what you’re looking at

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4 KIND MASTER. - 139 CHAPTER X. MAUM GUINEA’S STORY. Soft my heart, and warm his wooing, What we did seemed, while ’twas doing, Beautiful and wise ; Wiser, fairer, more in tune Than all else in that sweet June, tt. And sinless as the skies fof That warmed the willing earth, thro’ all the lan id skies, : Sypvey Dose... And closer, closer to her She held the little on. Who stretched its ile hand to feel Her bosom’s warmth, and smiled. But she—she did not own a touch Of that fond little hand— Great God! that such a thing should be, Within a Christian land !—ALpkica. “ Wuen I was a little girl I lived on de banks of de James river. “Twas a purty place, and we b’longed to a right nice family ; we use to pride ourselves on our family. We held our heads mighty high ’kase we b’long to Massa Gregory. De house was big and han’some; dar was flowers all about jt, and gardens, and de lawn in front run straight down to de river. I use to set under de big trees and see de water flow by, all blue and full of gold sparkles. Nebber, nebber do I look up to de Almighty’s heaben above us, w’en it’s bright and full of stars, but I minds de James river, and de days wen I was a girl. I -was a wild kind of a cre’tur—not bad, Lut fall of fan and mischief; I was happy all day long; and I was so pert dey let me be, and didn’ ask me to work not enough to hurt a chicken. Massa was a pleasant man; he ‘lowed his slaves to l’arn to read, if dey want to, and to go to meetin’; he nebber whip ’em, ‘less dey was awful bad, and prowoked him to it. Missus was a Christian lady, jest as conniclooo kS.C@nin)