'Fo' Gawd, nigger, I never felt so quare in all my born days as when I wuz a- jobbin' de livers o' dem white men lak de sahgeant tol' me to."

He's as quare as Dick's hat-bant 'at went nine times reawnd an' wouldn't tee. . . .

" "Well," said the old woman, sitting down, "things is quare with us as ever they can be, an' that you know very well."