Ah use tuh play till ah got bigger nuff tuh work.

Turnt us out widout a place tuh stay, no clo'es but whut we had on our back an nuthin tuh eat.

" "Gorry, but I was mighty glad tuh git my claws on dat limb, Marse Frank.

But I've got a hunch that one o' the lot is agoin' tuh grab that thief, providin' he does come around here.

"And if so be yuh'll come along with me right now, we'll take a look at the contraptions, which, of course, yuh understand, are only meant for night-times, and tuh help out when Jerry wouldn't be around for me to sorter lean on.

We use tuh jump an we use tuh ride stick hosses an limbs offn trees.

Since I got that same, three days back, I've been figgerin' on how I could fix up a trap tuh ketch any two-legged varmint that chanced tuh come sneakin' around here of a night.

De white preacher would call us under a tree Sunday evenin tuh preach tuh us.

Ah kep' hit up till ah learnt tuh read.

Dey wuzn use tuh slaves so mah marster made him promise [HW: not] tuh beat me or knock me bout.

Ah went off tuh sleep but wuz woke by somethin scratchin on de wall below.

Sometime mah laig gets so big ah jes had tuh sloop mah foot erlong.

Den de hide wuz put tuh soak in wid de redoak bark.

Turnt us out widout a place tuh stay, no clo'es but whut we had on our back an nuthin tuh eat.

Yes, I sure liked tuh woak for Mistah Davis.

Enroute tuh dis country we come through Tennessee an ah membuh comin through Memphis an Pine Bluff to Fordyce.

Ah use tuh play till ah got bigger nuff tuh work.

Ah use tuh fish in er big ole fish pond rat down whah de wesson depot is now.