" "Done forgit nuffin," curtly replied the old woman.

"Git up f'm dere, you lazy, good-fuh-nuffin' nigger!

"Well, it des 'peared ez if fum dat time Dave did n' hab nuffin but trouble.

W'en he got back home he couldn' skasely tell Mars Marrabo de message w'at Mars Dugal' had sent back ter 'im. "Mars Marrabo listen' at 'im 'temp' ter tell it; and den he says, kinder col' and cuttin'-likehe didn' 'pear ter get mad ner nuffin': "'Youer drunk, Ben.'