I know dat much!" "Are you a good laundress ?" asked Aunt Alice.
"Yas'm, I am! Ef I do say it dat shouldn't, you jes' ought to see de clothes I sends up! Dey's jes' like druvven snow.

Oh, dey won't be no trouble about de laundry work!" "And can you sweep ?" said Patty.
"Can I sweep?
Law, chile, co'se I kin sweep! What yo' s'pose I want to hire out for, ef I can't do all dem things?
Oh, dey won't be no trouble about sweepin'!" "Well, where _will_ the trouble be, Mancy ?" said Patty.
"Dey moughtn't be any trouble, miss," said the black woman earnestly; "but if dey is, it'll be 'count o' my bein' spoke cross to.

I jes' nachelly can't stand bein' spoke cross to.

It riles me all up." "I don't believe there will be any trouble on that score," said Patty, laughing.

"My father and I are the best-natured people in the world." "I believe yo', missy; an' dat's why I wants to come." "There will be another servant, Mancy," said Aunt Alice; "a young girl who will be a waitress.