But folks get peart and sassy when they're way from hum, and put on ez many airs as a buck nigger.

And so he calls hisself Don Ricardo here, does he ?" "The Senor knows Don Ricardo ?" said Mateo politely.
"Ef you mean me--wa'al, yes--I should say so.

He was a partiklar friend of a man I've known since he was knee-high to a grasshopper." Ezekiel had actually never seen Demorest but once in his life.

He would have scorned to lie, but strict accuracy was not essential with an ignorant foreign audience.
He took up his carpet-bag.
"I reckon I kin find his house, ef it's anyway handy." But the Senor Mateo was again politely troubled.

The house of Don Ricardo was of a truth not more than a mile distant.