I asts her why does she ast.
"Because," she says, "because--but I hadn't ought to tell you." "It's daylight," I says; "it's no use being scared to tell now." "It ain't that," she says, "but it's a secret." When she said it was a secret, I knowed she would tell.

Martha liked having her friends help her to keep a secret.
"I think Miss Hampton has seen one," she says, finally, "and that her staying indoors has something to do with that." Then she tells me.

The night of the day after we camped there, her and Miss Hampton was out fur a walk.

We didn't have any show that night.
They passed right by our camp, and they seen us there by the fire, all three of us.

But they was in the road in the dark, and we was all in the light, so none of the three of us seen them.