En bimeby hit got so Mars Marrabo's wife herse'f wuz skeered ter go out in de yard atter dark.

'im ter death, an' skeered my mammy so she ain' be'n herse'f f'm dat day ter dis.

"I ain't skeered ef Honey'll go with me," returned the boy doubtfully, as he interrogated the twilit spaces beyond the open cabin door.

I ain' skeered ter eat de grapes, 'caze I knows de old vimes fum de noo ones; but wid strangers dey ain' no tellin' w'at mought happen.

She wuz skeered hit

'im ter death, an' skeered my mammy so she ain' be'n herse'f f'm dat day ter dis.

She not much skeered nether fo dat veil hit suah keep de hants away.

Leas'ways he said it did; en' atter dat none er de niggers wouldn't go nigh de swamp, 'cep'n Cindy, who said it wuz all foolishnessit wuz dis nigger's guilty conscience dat skeered 'imshe hadn' seed no ha'nt en' wuz'n skeered er nuffin' she didn't see.

"I ain't skeered o' much, but diptheery gives me cold feet.

He wuz skeered er Miss Polly.

"Skeered stiff about some ole feery tale!

Dey skeered de breeches off'n me.

When he got de banjo 'bout paid foh, dat time he took a whole nes'ful to onc't an' de birds what it b'longed to saw what he war a-doin' an' gib him a piece o' dere mind, an' folled him 'round all day an' sat on de roof ob his quarters an' talked all night, 'an tole him to bring back dem Mockers or dey'd tell; an' Sambo war skeered an' wanted to put de birds back an' den he didn't like to.