"Do you know him ?" "Know him?
Reckon I does ?" said Uncle Braddock, "an' de dog ud a knowed him too, ef he'd a cotched him! Dat's so, Mah'sr John." "Well, tell us his name, if you know him," said Mr.Darby.
"Ob course, I knows him," said Uncle Braddock.

"I'se done knowed him fur twenty or fifty years.

He's George Mason." The announcement of this name caused quite a sensation in the party.
"I thought he was down in Mississippi," said one man.
"So he was; I reckons," said Uncle Braddock, "but he's done come back now.

I'se seed him afore to-day, and Aunt Matilda's seed him, too.

Yah, ha! Dat dere dog come mighty nigh cotchin' him!" George Mason had been quite a noted character in that neighborhood five or six years before.