I dun rackon da won't follow us in dis yeah storm," remarked Old Ben, as they stopped after a while, to catch their breath.
An' ebry time you has one, son, you'll be oneyeah older.
No, mist'ess, this Mahs Jean Larue did stay on they Georgy plantation till five yeah back, then they move ovah to Callina again; that how I come to meet up with Rosa.
Long 'bout a yeahafter that, it was, when Miss Leo die.
She been daid ovah a yeah now, but it's some whar 'mongst her b'longings.
I come down yeah to find Jock Drones for his mother!
But I suah does wish dat trash man'd come 'roun' yeah befo' dem two chilluns come back.
My muthuh brought me to Cape Girardeau in 1862, an' I was 'bout ten yeah ol' at dat time.
Mammy wuz raised in Vuhginyuh an' when she wuz sixteen yeah ole she wuz put on de block an' sold in Nashville.
Last yeah her cousin Kate took her abroad with her, and she studied French, and she had lots of beautiful times where they spent the wintah in France.
Mah oles' are Madge Hannah, an she sixty yeah ol' an still a teachin' at the Indian School where she been fo twenty-two yeahs now.
I don't know how old I am, dey never told me down dere, but the folks here say I'm a hunderd yeah old an' I spect dats about right.
But as year after year rolled away, Uncle Gambo would still say, "I'se a hun'erd and ten yeah ole.
I'se a hun'erd and ten yeah ole; I allurs was, I allurs shell be.
En w'en I tell you mo'n two hundred stamps is passed my mouth this yeah blessid evenin', 't will give you some slight idee of the magnitude of the duties I has to puffawn.
Tain't no time sence I done toted her round in ma ahms same's I'se doin' now wif dese yeah bressed lambs.
Why, dis yeah chile had to go back in de house to git her li'l shawl.