Now, WE always take our meals with
our people."
Presently after, while talking over the affairs of our households,
I happened to say that the cow we had bought of Mollineux had turned
out extremely well, and gave a great deal of milk.
"That man lived with us several years," she said; "he was an
excellent servant, and D - - paid him his wages in land. The farm he
now occupies formed a part of our U.E. grant. But, for all his good
conduct, I never could abide him, for being a BLACK."
"Indeed! Is he not the same flesh and blood as the rest?"
The colour rose into Mrs. D - -'s sallow face, and she answered with
much warmth -
"What! do you mean to compare ME with a NIGGER!"
"Not exactly. But, after all, the colour makes the only difference
between him and uneducated men of the same class."
"Mrs. Moodie!" she exclaimed, holding up her hands in pious horror;
"they are the children of the devil! God never condescended to make
a nigger."
"Such an idea is an impeachment of the power and majesty of the
Almighty. How can you believe such an ignorant fable?"
"Well, then," said my monitress, in high dudgeon, "if the devil did
not make them, they are descended from Cain."
"But all Cain's posterity perished in the flood."
My visitor was puzzled.
