I done don't know just who dey am fer shure, cause dey don't stay long no more.

I reckon dey can't abide dat ghost, sah, an' de field han's dey won't stay on de place at all affer dark." "The overseer and housekeeper then are newly employed ?" "Dem am de fac's, sah.

Deh ain't been dar no time at all, an' I reckon as how dey won't stay long, though de niggers say de oberseer am a hell ob a man." Here was a pleasant situation surely.

While the conditions were favorable enough so far as our purpose was concerned, yet I fervently wished we had postponed our arrival until daylight.

While the negro's ghost had no terrors for me--indeed, merely afforded amusement--I realized my companion was not so indifferent.