I was particularly struck by the way in which it was punctuated by such exclamatory phrases as "Lawd a mussy!"

She ma'ied a doctuh, an' all dat, an' she lives in a big house, an' she's be'n roun' de worl' an de Lawd knows where e'se: but Mis' 'Livy don' like de sight er her, an' never will, ez long ez de sun rises an' sets.

" "Lawd, ma'am!"

"Lawd, Lawd!" chuckled Sandy, after the carriage had departed, "I never seed nothin' lack de way dat ole lady do keep up her temper!

"Lawd, Lawd!" chuckled Sandy, after the carriage had departed, "I never seed nothin' lack de way dat ole lady do keep up her temper!

"O my Lawd, Mis' 'Livy, my Lawd, my Lawd!

"O my Lawd, Mis' 'Livy, my Lawd, my Lawd!

"O my Lawd, Mis' 'Livy, my Lawd, my Lawd!

O Lawd have mussy on us po' sinners!

O my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd!

O my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd!

O my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd!

O my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd!

I prayed de Lawd ter sen' you, an' He answered my prayer, an' here you is, Mars John,here you is!

no mo' wid it; but ef dere should be any accident, er ef you can't git me out er here, don' bother yo' min' 'bout it no mo', suh, an' don' git yo'se'f ixcited, fer you know de doctuh says, suh, dat you can't stan' ixcitement; but jes' leave me in de han's er de Lawd, suh,He'll look after me, here er hereafter.

Fer de Lawd's sake, suh, you won' let 'em kill me, will you, suh?

If I should lay down tonight I could tell when my folks were going to die, because the Lawd would tell me in a vision.

The Lawd tells me in a vision to step right up and see the faith.

"But, Lawd, my mother never had no use for Catholics because it was a Catholic that hit her over the head with that skilletright after she come from mass.

Praise de Lawd!") "My mudder was sold once for a hundud dollahs and once ag'in for thirty-eight hundud dollahs.

Den dey all jump an' scream an', bless de Lawd, if he warnt plumb dead.

De Lawd put a-plenty here for ever'body, but shucks!

One acre, I giv' to de Lawd for a graveyard an' a churchhouse.

"De good Lawd, he don't forgit me.

Heah Ah done wear black fer yuh, an' gin yuh up fer daid; an' bress de Lawd, heah you is, lak come beck f'm de grave.' "Ah retch down, in m' pocket an' pull a pahcel an' lay hit in her han'; three hunnert sebenty-eight dollahs, all de money I done made