Youse stay 'way fum it.

Mah raght wife, she daidan' then Ah mahied this yeh light-shaded gehl fum th' quahtahs, an' she's wild an' misledyes, seh.

She sais Ah git a mewl an' a fahm an' thousan' dollehs money fum yo' Nawthen President an' we all live lahk th' quality.

"An' then, afteh a tehible shawt while, Ah git Little Miss fum the educationals an' they both be independent.

"Nan called me to fetch some fraish water fum de well.

You weaned her away fum me.

Fee, fie, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, said the Giant in the story.

I. "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, I am a bold and infamous Hun, I am, I am.

"Fee-fi-fo-fum.

"The weather is certainly fine just now," Fum lum dum skiddle fay.

These, and other scenes equally wild and abominable, luckily counteract themselves;they present such a Fee-fa-fum for grown up people, such a burlesque upon tragic horrors, that a sense of the ludicrous irresistibly predominates over the terrific; and, to avoid disgust, our feelings gladly take refuge in contemptuous laughter.

Having, to hang around with a sack on my back begging de government to keep me fum starving.

When young marster would come by home or any uv de udder soldiers us little niggers would steal de many balls (bullets or shot) fum dey saddul bags and play wid em.

Hit wuz made fum backy sacks.

Our fiel wuz bout a mile fum de house.

Ah knocked mah brothuh ovah fuh pickin um up an aftuh ah done dat ole moster taken his red pocket han'cher out and tied hit ovah mah eyes tuh keep me fum seein mah brothuh pick um up.

Dey marster would beat dem at night when dey come fum de fiel' an lock em up.

Later we learnt we wuz runnin fum de wah.

wuz fightin tuh free us dey stole hosses an run erway tuh keep fum bein set free.

Wiles Tenie wuz lock up in de smoke-'ouse, Mars Marrabo tuk 'n' haul de lumber fum de sawmill, en put up his noo kitchen.

De nex' day atter he come back, he tol' de han's dey neenter wuk on'y fum sun ter sun, en he cut dey tasks down so dey did n' nobody hab ter stan' ober 'em wid a rawhide er a hick'ry.

"G'way fum de doo'!

"Guan way fum here Spot.

"I never got no beatins fum my master when I was a slave.

To quote some of her quaint expressions: "Honey I aint know I was any diffrunt fum de chillen o' me mistress twel atter de war.