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Show 150 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: OR, couldn't bttr to go off without sccin' yo! It docs me real good, ye can't tell! " Here Tom made some movement of his feet, and George's eye fel) on the fetters. '' YVhat a. shame!'' he exclaimed, lifting hi~ hands. ''I '11 knock that old fellow down - I will ! " n No you won't, ~fas'r George ; and you must not talk so loud. It won't help me any, to anger him." "'Yell, I won't, then, for your sake; but only to think of it- isn't it a shame 1 They never sent for me, nor sent mo any word, and, if it hadn't been for Tom Lincon, I shouldn't have heard it. I tell you, I blew 'em up well, all of 'em, at home!'' "That ar 1Y:18 n't right, I 'm 'fcard, ~ias' r George." "Can't help it! I sa.y it 's a shame! Look here, Uncle Tom," said he, turning his back to the shop, and speaking in a mysterious tone, " I 've brought you rny dollar!" " 0! I couldn't think o' takin' on 't, Mas'r George, no wa.ys in the world! " said Tom, quite moved. ''But you shall take it! " said George; ''look here - I told Aunt Chloe I 'd do it, and she advised me just to make a hole in it, and put a string through, so you could hang it round your neck, and keep it out of sight; else this mean scamp would take it away. I tell ye, 1'om, I want to blow him up ! it would do me good ! " "No, don't, 1'Ias'r George, for it won't do nw any good." " VVell, I won't, for your sake," said George, busily tying his dollar round ~rom's neck; "but there, now, button your coat tight over it, aml keep it, and remember, every time you see it, that I'll come down after you, and bring you back. Aunt Chloe and I have been talking about it. I told her not to fear; I 'll see to it, and I 'll tense father's life out, if he don't do it." I.IFE AMONG TIIE LOWLY. 151 "0 ! 1\Ias'r George, ye mustn't talk so 'bout yer father!" " Lor, Uncle Torn, I don't mean anyt11ing bacl., "And now, ~Ias'r George," said 'Tom, "yo must be a good boy; 'member how many hearts is sot on ye. Al'ays keep close to ycr mother. Don't be gcttin' into any of them foolish ways boys has of gettin' too big to mind their mothers. Tell yc what, Mas'r George, the Lord gives goed many things twice over; but be don't give yc a mother but once. Yo '11 never sec sich another woman, ~Ias'r George, if ye live to be a hundred years old. So, now, you hold on to her, and grow up, and be a. comfort to her, thar 's my own good boy,- you will now, won't yo?" " Yes, I will, Uncle Tom," said George, seriously. "And be careful of yer speaking, Mus'r George. Young boys, when they comes to your age, is wilful, sometimes- it's natur they should be. But real gentlemen, such as I hopes you']] be, never lets full no words that isn't 'spcctful to thar parents. Ye an't 'fended, ~ias'r George?" "No, indeed, Uncle 'l'om; you always did give me good advice. '' "I 's older, ye know," said Tom, stroking the boy's fine, curly head with his large, strong hand, but speaking in a voice as tender as a woman's, ''and I sees all that 's bound up in you. 0, .Mas'r George, you has everything, -l'arnin', privileges, readin', writin' ,-:mel you'll grow up to be a g1~eat, learned, goed man, and all the people on the place and your mother and father 'll be so proud on yo ! Be a good Mas'r like yer fothcr; ond be a Christian, like yer mother.' 'Mem~ bcr ycr Creator in the days o' ycr youth, Mus'r George." "I'll be real good, Uncle Tom, I tell you," said Gcor"c. "I'm going to be a first-rater; and don't you be disco;rugcd. I']] have you back to the place, yet. As I told Aunt |