"Naow don't git skeered, Mother, don't git skeered," he abjured her.

"Naow don't git skeered, Mother, don't git skeered," he abjured her.

Skeered to come hisself, an' sends a boy.

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

"Yes; I've enough sense to know when I am skeered.

I'm skeered plum to death, but all the same I'm a-goin' back with you, because Sissy give me that dime.

Reckon I'm braver'n you, 'cause you ain't skeered.

And a voice, rich with contempt, called back: "You needn't be skeered, you fool rabbit of a nigger!" Peter turned with a qualm.

It was mighty plain that she was dreadful skeered for fear anybody would think thar was somethin' goin' on 'twixt them two.

Did the horse run away, or did she see something that frightened her?" "No, suh, de hoss didn' git skeered at nothin', but Mis' 'Livy did see somethin', er somebody; an' it wa'n't no fault

He wuz skeered er Miss Polly.

Well you ain't never been skeered.

Ah sho' wuz skeered.

Ah wuz skeered uv bears an panthers so ah crawled up in a ole bandoned crib an crouched down gainst de loft.

Doan be skeered.

she 'mence' ter git kinder skeered she wuz'n nebber gwine ter see her mammy ner Skundus

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.

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.

"Skundus look lack 'e wuz skeered mos' ter def fer ter heah

She didn' 'pear to know who he wuz, an' seem kinder skeered.

"When war came along and Sherman came through the old people wuz very skeered on account of the white owners but there was no fighting close to me.

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

"She's so skeered, I'se pow'ful 'fraid she gwine to faint.

The Union army is several miles from here, an' my poor mammy is so skeery that, if I were trying to get her away and any of them Secesh would overtake us, an' begin to question us, she would get skeered almost to death, an' break down an' begin to cry, an' then the fat would be in the fire.

Well, I war so skeered, my heart flew right up in my mouf, but I made my manners to him and said, 'Good mornin', Massa.'