I worked in the field all my whole life 'cepting six years I worked in a laundry.
I never stayed over there much and the girl never come to my place 'cepting when mama come.
There ain't no train till daylight, 'cepting it be the through freight.
Sez I: 'There ain't no train till daylight, 'cepting it be the through freight.
Can't no woman at all 'cepting my mama and Miss Cecilia kiss me.
An' we all goes to sea sometimes together, 'cepting Murrams, our pussy, and the Admiral.
Why, there's never anything wrong with her 'cepting now and then the croodles, and they're not anything lingering.
Cepting this here--which has no doubt occurred to you, or to B.
She started crying and told them she ain't got no money or jewels, 'cepting de ring she had on her finger.
After that, de massa and missus let all de slaves go 'cepting me; they kept me to work in de house and de garden.
I had five sisters and one brother but they are all dead, 'cepting one brother who lives near Henderson.
De day we was freed, de slaves jus' scattered, 'cepting me.
None of my old Master's boys tried to git away 'cepting two, and dey met up wid evil, both of 'em.
Iffen de younguns wanted to be man and wife and de old ones didn't care dey jest went ahead and dat was about all, 'cepting some presents maybe.
I never did have any more good times 'cepting when I'd get to go to visit at old Master's.
It was dark, all 'cepting the light from the chimney, and I fumble all up and down the door jamb before I find de latch pin.
Old Master never punished his niggers 'cepting dey was sassy or lazy.
But de Big House aint hurt 'cepting it need a new roof.
They jest keep a dust kicked up all day and all night 'cepting when it rain, and they git all bogged down and be strung all up and down the road camping.
Our furniture was made of oak 'cepting de chairs, and dey was made out of hackberry.
In de sleeping rooms day wasn't no fires 'cepting in brazers made out of clay, and we toted up charcoal to burn in 'em when it was cold mornings in de winter.
All de cloth 'cepting de Mistress' Sunday dresses come from de sheep to de carders and de spinners and de weaver, den we dye it wid "butternut" and hickory bark and indigo and other things and set it wid copperas.
Nails cost big money and old Master's blacksmith wouldn't make none 'cepting a few for old Master now and den, so we used wooden dowels to put things together.
It aint a bit cold in that place, and we didn't have no fire 'cepting to cook, and sometimes a little charcoal fire in some crock pots that the people left on the place when they went on out to Texas.
All 'cepting old Master, and he never said a word out of de way to him.
Leather tanned on de place made de shoes, and I never see a store boughten wagon wheel 'cepting among de stages and de freighters along de big road.
I ain't had nothing to do with any kind of papers for years 'cepting owners' orders.
I've been trying to see some way all night long, but I can't, 'cepting to sell.
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