"Ef I should git laid out in dis commotion dat's gwine on, will you collec' my wages f'm yo' brother, and see dat de ole 'oman is put away right?"

of, how determined, by what relative represented. Collec.

"Las' year de men dat collec' nearly worrit me to death a-tryin' to git some money from me.

I sometimes collec' fer de lumber