{"id":33,"date":"2021-06-16T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/?post_type=chapter&p=33"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:24:03","slug":"the-reunion","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/chapter\/the-reunion\/","title":{"raw":"The Reunion","rendered":"The Reunion"},"content":{"raw":"Well, one morning real early\r\nI was going down the street,\r\nAnd I heard a stranger asking\r\nFor Missis Chloe Fleet.\r\n\r\nThere was something in his voice\r\nThat made me feel quite shaky,\r\nAnd when I looked right in his face,\r\nWho should it be but Jakey!\r\n\r\nI grasped him tight, and took him home\u2014\r\nWhat gladness filled my cup!\r\nAnd I laughed, and just rolled over,\r\nAnd laughed, and just give up.\r\n\r\n\"Where have you been? O Jakey, dear!\r\nWhy didn't you come before?\r\nOh! when you children went away\r\nMy heart was awful sore.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why, mammy, I've been on your hunt\r\nSince ever I've been free,\r\nAnd I have heard from brother Ben,\r\nHe's down in Tennessee.\r\n\r\n\"He wrote me that he had a wife.\"\r\n\"And children?\" \"Yes, he's three.\"\r\n\"You married, too?\" \"Oh no, indeed,\r\nI thought I'd first get free.\"\r\n\r\n\"Then, Jakey, you will stay with me,\r\nAnd comfort my poor heart;\r\nOld Mistus got no power now\r\nTo tear us both apart.\r\n\r\n\"I'm richer now than Mistus,\r\nBecause I have got my son;\r\nAnd Mister Thomas he is dead,\r\nAnd she's got nary one.\r\n\r\n\"You must write to brother Benny\r\nThat he must come this fall,\r\nAnd we'll make the cabin bigger,\r\nAnd that will hold us all.\r\n\r\n\"Tell him I want to see 'em all\r\nBefore my life do cease:\r\nAnd then, like good old Simeon,\r\nI hope to die in peace.\"","rendered":"

Well, one morning real early
\nI was going down the street,
\nAnd I heard a stranger asking
\nFor Missis Chloe Fleet.<\/p>\n

There was something in his voice
\nThat made me feel quite shaky,
\nAnd when I looked right in his face,
\nWho should it be but Jakey!<\/p>\n

I grasped him tight, and took him home\u2014
\nWhat gladness filled my cup!
\nAnd I laughed, and just rolled over,
\nAnd laughed, and just give up.<\/p>\n

“Where have you been? O Jakey, dear!
\nWhy didn’t you come before?
\nOh! when you children went away
\nMy heart was awful sore.”<\/p>\n

“Why, mammy, I’ve been on your hunt
\nSince ever I’ve been free,
\nAnd I have heard from brother Ben,
\nHe’s down in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

“He wrote me that he had a wife.”
\n“And children?” “Yes, he’s three.”
\n“You married, too?” “Oh no, indeed,
\nI thought I’d first get free.”<\/p>\n

“Then, Jakey, you will stay with me,
\nAnd comfort my poor heart;
\nOld Mistus got no power now
\nTo tear us both apart.<\/p>\n

“I’m richer now than Mistus,
\nBecause I have got my son;
\nAnd Mister Thomas he is dead,
\nAnd she’s got nary one.<\/p>\n

“You must write to brother Benny
\nThat he must come this fall,
\nAnd we’ll make the cabin bigger,
\nAnd that will hold us all.<\/p>\n

“Tell him I want to see ’em all
\nBefore my life do cease:
\nAnd then, like good old Simeon,
\nI hope to die in peace.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-33","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions\/69"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/sketchesofsouthernlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}