She favorite ob missy, and so when we marry, missy hab me taken off de fields and put to garden.

Bery fine garden dat was.
Tree, four of us work dar, Sam jus' as happy as man could be.

Sometime, when der am party, Sam come into the house to help at de table, dat how Sam know how to do tings proper.

De little massas dey bery fond ob me, and when dey want to go out hunting de coon or fishing in de riber, dey always cry for Sam.
"So fifteen years passed by, bery happy years, sar, den do ole massa die; missy, too, soon after.

De young massa not like him father.