Yit ef he start atter me dis blessid night, I lay I roust de whole plantation. |
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Dat rooster aint no chicken, I tell yer, tain nuthin in dis worl but er hant. |
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I low ef we-all wuster race hoss roun dis hyah garret, tain long fo yo mall be de dark hoss ter do de beatin. |
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De good Lord bress dose chillen, an' give 'em as tankful hearts as we hab dis day! |
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I'd radder take dis mutt into Fairview dan pull down a t'ousan' in de long green. |
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Dis being Texarkana's fate, she has had a hard struggle overcoming dis handicap for sixty-three years. |
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But when we got tuh dis country we settled bout seven or eight miles fum Camden in Ouachita County. |
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Uf anypody dried to get in py dis vindow, he vill ged shot, vid der accent on der shot! |
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One of the best of them, so far as the drawing of a woman is concerned, is dis aliter visum. |
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O my bredren, dis is a fine new meetin-house, but we should all seek a house whose builder and maker is de great Lord! |
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An', my bredren, includin' uv de sistren, I ain't gwine ter spare yer feelin's dis day. |
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Fore God, buckra, if one of younner put your nasty hand on dis chile of my ole missus you got to knock Delia down fust. |
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After bathing in dis tea we'd go to bed and kiver up and sweat de malaria out. |
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I've hocked ev'ryt'ing dat would bring in a dollar, an' dis is de las' t'ing I've got. |
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An Ah sure am spifflicated to meet all you young gemmun agin, speshul dis one what saved mah life, indicating Bobby. |
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Well, you couldn't wet dis old man's whistle wid a swallow of red liquor now? |
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Don't let dis guy find me crackin' his safe, so's I won't have to kill 'im. |
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Don' know 'xactly how ole I was den, but I c'n tell yah dis much, I wasn't in no herry to marry. |
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Ve move Nogales City over here and make dis der gounty seat. |
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We also made bread pills and soaked 'em in dis tea and swallowed 'em. |
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But he has a near nor mal life expectancy and full awareness of his dis abilities and of the com parison between himself and others. |
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Washed and ironed for 30 years, and paid for dis home that way. |
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Us ladies is musin our selfs er makin dis ole fing farly howl. |
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Ole missis, she tole me I got to go an' git dis water an' not stop foolin' roun' wid anybody. |
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Somet'ing aboudt dis blace gifs me a creepiness oof der skin. |
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An' he said, 'Lay right down on dis yer table,' an' I lay down. |
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Who ob all dis congregation is gwine next to lie ded-e-de-dah? |
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Why dis here's to be a rigler scrumptious, fash'nable 'tainment! |
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Hey, don' shoot down dis way, black man, tull I makes my exit! |
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I'll be boun' Missis'll give us an uncommon good bite, dis yer time. |
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You's young Marse Tom fum dis out, en I got to practice and git used to 'memberin' to call you dat, honey, or I's gwine to make a mistake sometime en git us bofe into trouble. |
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I got dis can fer dat ol' woman an' it 'ud be dirt teh swipe it. |
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Dis bag has got linen, and boots, and Oder tings for you, sah. |
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