Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Original Classic Edition. Stowe Harriet

chance, I'd mark him, I reckon so that he'd carry it one while."

       "These yer knowin' boys is allers aggravatin' and sarcy," said a coarse-looking fellow, from the other side of the room; "that's why they gets cut up and marked so. If they behaved themselves, they wouldn't."

       "That is to say, the Lord made 'em men, and it's a hard squeeze gettin 'em down into beasts," said the drover, dryly.