I'd most got dar w'en a bunch ob low white trash jumped me.

It made me mad, it did fo' a fact, an' I reckon I carved some ob 'em up befo' I got away.

Ennyhow, de marshal come down, took me out ob de tent, an' fetched me here, an' I ben here ebber sence.
I wan't goin' ter let no low down white trash git all dat money." "What became of the men you were working for ?" "I reckon dey went on, sah.

Dey had 'portent business, an' wouldn't likely wait 'roun' here jest ter help a nigger.

Ain't ennybody ben here ter see me, no-how, an' I 'spects I'se eradicated from dey mem'ry--I 'spects I is.".