A. C. Gordon

Excerpt from Befo De War: Echoes in Negro Dialect Sarvent, Marster! Yes, sah, dat's me - Ole Unc' Gabe's my name; I thankee, Marster, I'm 'bout, yo' see. "An' de ole 'oon1an?" She's much de same, Po'ly an' 'p1ainin', thank de Lord! But de Marster's gwine ter come back from 'broad. "Fine ole place?" Yes, sah, 'tis so; An mighty fine people my white folks war - But you ought ter 'a' seen it years ago, When de Marster an' de Mistis lived up dyah; When de niggers 'd stan' all roun' de do', Like grains o' corn on de cornhouse flo'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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