THE COLONEL'S "NIGGER DOG"
one morning Colonel Rivers of Jasper, standing on his back porch, called to a negro man who was passing through the yard.
"Ben!"
"Yasser!"
"How 's everything at the home place?"
"Tollerble, suh,—des tollerble."
"Tell Shade I want to see him this morning."
"Unk Shade done gone, suh. He sho is. He done gone!"
"Gone where?"
"He done tuck ter de woods, suh. Yasser! he done gone!"
A frown clouded the colonel's otherwise pleasant brow.
"What is the matter with the old simpleton?"
"Some kinder gwines on 'twix him an' Marse Preston, suh. I dunno de rights un it. But Unk Shade done gone, suh!"
