Never did see so many chaps before.

What be they a-doing?
Digging a big drain or making a roadway, I guess." "Who are you, sir ?" the officer asked angrily.
"Seth Jones I be, and mother's sent me to sell some fowls and eggs.

Do you want to buy any?
Fine birds they be." "Why, Sheridan," laughed the other officer, "this is a feather out of your cap.

I thought your fellows had cleared out every hen-roost within twenty miles of Petersburg already." "I fancy they have emptied most of them," the general said grimly.
"Where do you come from, lad ?" "I comes from over there," Vincent said, jerking his thumb back.

"I lives there with mother.