I had my pipe en a plug er dog-leg, en some matches in my cap, en dey warn't wet, so I 'uz all right." "And so you ain't had no meat nor bread to eat all this time?
Why didn't you get mud-turkles ?" "How you gwyne to git 'm?
You can't slip up on um en grab um; en how's a body gwyne to hit um wid a rock?
How could a body do it in de night?
En I warn't gwyne to show mysef on de bank in de daytime." "Well, that's so.

You've had to keep in the woods all the time, of course.

Did you hear 'em shooting the cannon ?" "Oh, yes.

I knowed dey was arter you.

I see um go by heah--watched um thoo de bushes." Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting.
Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain.