E. C. BOWERSOX.It was only human, after all, to find the cheapest way to do necessary work. It was only human to want the profits high and the costs low. It was only human to look on other races as congenitally inferior, as less-than-man in any possible sense, as materials, in fact, to be used.
ONE:"That's all right. Si," said Shorty coming up with his mouthful of hardtack and meat, and inspecting Si's work with critical approval. "You kin lay away over me and all the rest when it comes to writin' and composin'. And you know how to spell, too. I wish I had your education. But I never had a chance to go to school.""I am brought here," Gornom said. "I am an elder many times. What the masters say, I do. Now they say I come here, and I come."
Late at night he tied the cow to the corn-crib and went to his weary bed."Well, I ain't done yet," continued the Orderly-Sergeant. "That little snipe, Pete Skidmore""Jim, you and Joe go down to the edge of the abatis and see what you can see.""I'm goin' to try to be half-white," he mentally resolved; "at least, as long's I'm north o' the Ohio River. When I'm back agin at the front, I kin take a rest from being respectable.""The tall feller's alive, too," said Wat.