Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 92: what you’re looking at

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84 MAUM GUINEA. ‘em go de ways dey’s wanted—dey’s kind o’ stubborn. Woll, s> it was wid Nelson. I ’spect he’d got some notion in his head ’bout not liking to be ordered *roun’ so; and our yberseer was mighty cross man, allers knocking niggers rbout. “One day, wen my baby was “bout tree months ole, I'd got done de wofk at de house; ‘twas summer ebening, and warm, and I'd come home to cook my man’s supper, and nuss my baby. Troo’ de day I habto leave my young’un wid all de rest, in care of old brack woman too ole to do much work. Dey keep de babies in a kind o’ pen, were dey could crawl ’round widout much tendin’—I could go and nuss it once in a wile—woll, I come here at night, and got his supper ready for him, and den sot down in Ge door to play wid my little one. I felt berry nice dat time, "kase de head-cook had-gib me piece of cold chicken and rice-pudding for my man, for helpin’ her right smart wid de big dinner fer company: and I was tinking w’at a treat it would be to Nelson. But Nelson didn’ cpme home. He ustially got home by dark, summer days; but de clocks strike nine, ten, and he didn’ come. I began to stop singing, and to feel drefful oppressed "bout breathing. I tought mebbe it was because de night was so warm: Little Sam was soun’ asleep, s0 I laid him down on de bed, and started off to look for my husband. Suthin took me’ right straight to de corn-house; and as I came clost to it, 1 hearn somebody groanin’. I knew "twas him, and I flew and tore open de door, and dar he ay. De oberseer had gib him awful whipping—awful ! and den, here de weather was so warm, he'd jist turn de salt and water over his back, and let him lay. - “T helped him up and got him home; he didn’t eat no cold chicken nor no rice puddin’ dat night. Massa scold de * Oberseer for whippin’ Nelson so hard, ’kase he was one of COnnielooolkks.conn