You see, me and Big Mose am generally de last niggers dat am up, specially myself.

I goes around for to see if de t'ings am all right about de house.

Wal, me and Mose had been around to see if eberyt'ing was right, and was coming back from de barn and got purty near de house, when Mose whispers, 'Cato, I see'd a man crawling on de ground back dar.

I didn't say nuffin' for fear ob scaring ob _you_.' 'Oh! git out,' says I, 'you's _skeart_.' But I felt a little oneasy myself, 'cause I kind ob fought I heern somefin' when we was a little furder off.

I commenced for to walk fast, and Big Mose commenced for to walk fast, and afore we knowed it, we bofe was a canterin', and when we come aginst de door, we'd like to 've busted it in, we was tearing along so fast.