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On the first day after her return from town Mrs. Colbert summoned Till and told her she meant to go out to see Aunt Jezebel this morning. "I will have a look around the yard first. Send Nancy in to dress me, and tell Tap to have the boys here in about an hour."
The "boys" were young negroes whom Tap called in from the barn or the fields to help him carry the Mistress. On each side of her chair were two iron rings; into these the boys thrust dressed hickory saplings and bore Mrs. Colbert about the place. Tap was one of the mill-hands, but he loved to wait on ladies. He was a handsome boy, and he knew the Mistress thought so. He used to make his assistants clean up on these occasions. "Take off dat sweaty ole rag an' put on a clean shirt fo' de Missus."