"She reckon dem biscuit goin' git her by Sain' Petuh when she 'proach de hevumly gates! Uhuh! I tell her she got git redemption fo' de aigs she done ruin dese many yeahs; 'cause she as useless wid an ommelick as a two-day calf on de slick ice!" Here he laughed loud and long.

"You jass go and talk wid dat Mamie, some day, Missy; you'll see how vain dat woman is." "Has father gone out, Nelson ?" asked Betty in a low voice.
"Yes'm; he up town." The old man's tone sank at once to the level of her own; became confidential, as one speaks to another in a room where somebody is ill.

"He mekkin' perpetration to go down de rivuh dis aft'noon.

He say he done broke de news to you dat he goin' 'way.

Dey goin' buil' dem wa'house right up, an' yo' pa he necistate go 'way 'count de contrack.