Jubes [noun]

Fust fing Jube knows he'll be hobblin er round on two legs ef he aint kilt rite ded.

If yu don't answer white man I'm agwine to sick ole Jube on yu, und run yu outen dis plantashun.

"See if Jube is not honest," he added, pressing the bronze box between his hands, and forcing some secret spring to recoil.

Among these good men—good in spite of ignorance and wrong endured—was the black man Jube.

Jube unclasped his great hands, and with a reverential touch attempted to close the eyes.

Jube looked up, his black face wet with tears, his great hands clasped and pressed downward in the sand.

Jube climbed up the rope ladder very slowly, with his black face bent toward the water.

So Jube sat down in the shade of the aloe, and covering his face with his hands, sat still waiting.

At last a trench of some depth was dug, and the sailor bade Jube help him lift the body into its poor resting-place.

Then Jube began to sob, and tremble through all his massive frame, but he obeyed meekly.