Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly (1853)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, author · Boston : John P. Jewett & Co. ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington · leaf 448
’s dat ? ” said the woman. “ Do tell ! you never hearn on’t ? ” said the other woman. “ I used to liar missis a readin’ on’t, sometimes, in Kentuck ; but, laws o’ me ! we don’t liar nothin’ here but crackin’ and swarin’.” “ Read a piece, any ways ! ” said the first woman, curiously, seeing Tom… … “ I jest wish I know’d whar to find him,” said the woman. “ I would go ; ’pears like I never should get rested agin. My flesh is fairly sore, and I tremble all over, every day, and Sambo’s allers a jawin’ at me, ’cause I doesn’t pick faster ; and nights it’s most midnight ’fore I can get my supper…
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