? ? ? ? "Seventeen! My land! Why, I wouldn't set out such a string as that, not if I never got to glory. It must take 'em a week."
? ? ? ? "Shucks, they don't all of 'em preach the same day- only one of 'em."
? ? ? ? "Well, then, what does the rest of 'em do?"
? ? ? ? "Oh, nothing much. Loll around, pass the plate- and one thing or another. But mainly they don't do nothing."
? ? ? ? "Well, then, what are they for?"
? ? ? ? "Why, they're for style. Don't you know nothing?"
? ? ? ? "Well, I don't want to know no such foolishness as that. How is servants treated in England? Do they treat 'em better 'n we treat our niggers?"
? ? ? ? "No! A servant ain't nobody there. They treat them worse than dogs."
? ? ? ? "Don't they give 'em holidays, the way we do, Christmas and New Year's week, and Fourth of July?"
? ? ? ? "Oh, just listen! A body could tell you hain't ever been to England, by that.
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