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220 HIS SAYINGS.III.UNCLE REMUS AND THE SAVANNAH DARKEY.THE notable difference existing between the negroesin the interior of the cotton States and those on theseaboard a difference that extends to habits and opinionsas well as to dialect has given rise to certainineradicable prejudices which are quick to displaythemselves whenever an opportunity offers. Theseprejudices were forcibly, as well as ludicrously, illustratedin Atlanta recently. A gentleman from Savannahhad been spending the summer in the mountainsof north Georgia, and found it convenient to takealong a body-servant. This body-servant was a veryfine specimen of the average coast negro sleek, wellconditioned,and consequentialdisposed to regard withundisguised contempt everything and everybody notindigenous to the rice-growing region and he paradedaround the streets with quite a curious and critical air.Espying Uncle Remus languidly sunning himselfcorner, the Savannah darkey approached.on a"Mornin', sah."" I'm sorter up an' about," responded Uncle Remus,carelessly and " "calmly. How isyou stannin' it ?" Tanky you, my helt mos' so-so. He mo' hot dunin de mountain. Seem so lak man mus' git need** Underneath.