O course the overseer had his share well paid, and Abe got his forty-rod as usual, with something added.
Uncle Abe insisted to the surprise of every one on this strange price for his fish, and Mr. Percy to humor him, complied, directing the overseer to cut him gently.
I have got a partner in this business, to whom I have engaged to give half of whatever I should get for the fish--this overseer would not admit me only on that condition.
He dismissed the overseer and undertook to some extent the management of the farm, but the crops failed and the hay rotted in the fields before it was got into the barn.
Tell about your master, mistress, their children, the house they lived in, the overseer or driver, poor white neighbors.
The overseer of the architects measured its ground; the chief treasurer wrote it; the sacred masons cut the well; the chief of the labourers on the tombs brought the bricks; all things used to make strong a building were there used.
His majesty sent the good overseer of the peasants of the king's domains, and boats laden with presents from the king for the Sati who had come to conduct me to the roads of Horus.
The overseer had compassion upon her; but his compassion was not so great as his dread of the king's displeasure; and he at length declared, that the next time Frederick visited the works, he must complain of her obstinate idleness.
I will inquire from the overseerwhat is the matter with her.
The black overseer was not permitted to know of my presence.
I cried, to see that overseer hit her like that because she couldn't keep up her row.
An' his overseer was a mighty big wicked black man; his name was Munday.
But as near as she was to dying, the overseer left Ben all night with that kind of a gag; and they found him dead in the morning.
An old dilapidated farmhouse, and a few log- huts formerly occupied by the overseer and slaves, were the homes of Captain Gordon and Surgeon Ransom, with their families, who seemed to enjoy camp life as well as any I had seen.
The overseer was a mighty hard man, and he drew that long whip of his over her shoulders so often because she couldn't keep up with the other hands, that she ran away in the bush and was gone two days before they caught her.
I told them I had heard of instances where an overseer was missing occasionally.
No story is too incredible for the average native of India, and the overseer and various forest guards who also heard the narrative fully believed it and spread it through the jungle villages.
Instead, they fled hotfoot to the village to spread their strange news; and next day, when they went to their work below and explained to the enraged Gurkha overseer the reason of their absence on the previous day, they told him the full tale.
Often for the most trifling fault; and, as sometimes occurs, because a mere whim or caprice of his brutal overseer demands it.
Neither the overseer nor the slaves had the least knowledge of clearing land, and that was the first thing to be done.
If it is a fact, and certainly it is, that the master is thus affected by his costly wine; what, think you, will be the temper and condition of the coarse and heartless overseerwho drinks his miserable whisky or bad brandy?
On this he put the overseer and a part of the slaves, and then hired a Mr. Herrington to take charge of the remainder.
While these things were transpiring on the east side of the bay, the overseer on the west side determined to punish one of the slaves who worked on the east side.
Thus prepared, the overseer proceeded to punish the poor, helpless victim.
A short time after, the overseer called at the cabin of one of the slaves, and was not a little surprised to find there the refractory slave, Williams, in company with three other men.
The overseer no sooner found himself at liberty than he ran out, calling to a servant girl to bring his rifle, which was loaded.
The overseer was always on hand to attend to all delinquents, who never failed to feel the blows of his heavy whip.
Instantly Williams sprang and caught him by the throat and held him writhing in his vise-like grasp, until he succeeded in getting possession of the cowhide, with which he gave the overseer such a flogging as slaves seldom get.
Here we called at a person's house to whom we were recommended; but the mistress of it was not at home, and the overseer of the slaves, at first, was unwilling to receive us.
He made Uncle Whitted de overseer kase he wuz one of de oldest slaves he had an' a good nigger.
My father said dey had poor white men to overseer, and de slave owner would go on about his business and sometimes didn't know an' didn't eben care how mean de overseer wus to de slaves.
There never was an overseer on the whole plantation.
If we had a fire in cold weather where we wus wurkin' marster or de overseerwould come an' put it out.
Dey came, whupped de overseer and put him in jail.
John Woodfox wus de main overseer and his son-in-law wus a overseer.
Master had a overseer to look atter his men; De overseer wus named Bridgers.
One time we had a whiteoverseer an' he whipped a fiel' han' called Sam Norwood, til de blood come.
They had a white overseer but he wasn't hired to whoop Laughinghouse's slaves.
The first overseer was on a boat named the Quapaw when the mate knocked him in the head and put him in a yawl and took him to the shore.
If the overseer thought they stayed too long he used to come in and whip them out--out to the fields.
No: it was not Owen: it was the overseer of the parish, who had set these men to dig up this field previously to its being sown with wheat.
I once asked a farmer, who had often been overseer of the poor, whether he really thought that there was any ground for this old saying, or whether he thought it was mere banter?
Now while I did these things the overseer and his companions beat their heads upon the ground and prayed for mercy, being cowards as the cruel always are.
Afterwards, as you know, Prince, the overseer flogged my father as I heard Khuaka order him to do if he lagged through weariness, and then Khuaka killed him because my father in his madness struck the overseer with a mattock.
Write down also the names of this overseer and his fellows and command them to report themselves at my camp to-morrow at sunrise, when their case shall be considered.
Thereupon an overseer ran up and flogged him with a cruel whip cut from the hide of the sea-horse.
The man turned and, lifting a wooden spade that he carried, struck the overseer such a blow that he cracked his skull so that he fell down dead.
I am the overseer here left in charge by Mr Coventry, whose grandson I understand you are," he said in very good English.
The moment the overseer heard that Dr Cuff was with me, he went out and brought him in, insisting on our making ourselves perfectly at home.
The next question I put to the overseer was about him.
The overseer was ready to receive us at breakfast.
Still it was possible, as Dr Cuff reminded us, that he might have done so without the overseer knowing anything about the matter.
What had become of him afterwards, the overseer could not say positively.
From all I saw and heard, the overseer was well worthy of the confidence placed in him.
Saturday, when he and his overseer knocked off for tea, they had paid 62 men and women.
And yet I know a smallish man back home who gets exactly 10 times the money that this man pays his overseer per month.
We have sworn off trusting anybody, even the overseer himself.
The overseer of the estate sides with me and says, "Little woman, don't you mind what the preacher says.
I mean to say I know the way you conduct yourselves so well that I myself could be overseer if I had to.
She pounds me, the overseer drives me to work like a beast; and the sexton pays court to my wife.
He did; and I, for similar reasons offered by Brother Junior Overseer, was unwilling to reject it, and ordered it passed on to the Master Overseer at the East gate for further inspection.
To inspect all materials brought up for the building of the Temple; and, if approved, pass it on to the Master Overseer at the East gate for further inspection.
To inspect all material brought up for the building of the Temple; approve or disapprove of the same; and, if approved, pass it on to the Senior Overseer for further inspection.
I am unwilling to reject it; pass on to the Senior Overseer at the West gate for further inspection.
And now I remember that a second-cousin of mine in Kentucky has an overseer from Ohio named Otis.
A very thrifty and choleric man was my cousin, and considering a yaller nigger less valuable than a black one, he threatened to subject hisoverseer to a surgical operation if another half-breed pickaninny appeared on the place.
In process of time Fort Sumter was fired upon, Marcy Gray came home from school, and then the overseer rubbed his hands joyously and told himself that he would soon know all about it.
Doesn't that prove that the overseer is not the only spy there is on the place?
An overseer who was left as much to himself as Hanson was, held great power in his hands; and some negro servants are as open to bribery as some white people are.
You may tell those gentlemen that if they want the overseer run off the plantation, they can come here and do it.
If you lisp another word I will have you sent to the overseeras sure as you are a living darkey.
I think I have laid that little scheme most effectually," was what Marcy Gray said to himself as he rode away from the stump on which the overseer was sitting.
The overseer being away in the field and his cabin unlocked, it was a matter of no difficulty for the darkey to rummage his bureau drawers until he found the object of which he was in search.
By the time the overseer was out of hearing sailor Jack came up, followed by two negroes, who carried blankets on their arms.
When his contract expires we can tell him that we do not intend to employ an overseer any longer.
A Phenician freights a ship to Libya, and persuades a Greek to go with him as overseer of the lading: he intended to sell him there as a slave.
As he was skilful in the discharge of his duties, Solomon raised him to be the overseer of the task-work of his tribe.
Over each tribe of Israel Solomon placed an overseer of the task-work, and these overseers were all subordinate to Adoniram, the chief task-master.
We find that, beside the captains of the army, the officers of the house and treasury, the king had a chancellor, a scribe, and overseer of the taxes.
I was overseer at the principal out-station--a good enough billet in its way--and Minchin was overseer in at the homestead.
