What ye got a light burnin' this time o' night fo'?" "'Deed, marsa, it's nuffin'fo' God, marsa!

Den yer tink melted led cold as de young gemmen at de big houses tink a miny julip is now, an besid's my brederen it keeps a burnin nite on day to de end ob ebrerlastin; yer needn't tink bimeby yer go from dare to hebben like de Rummin CatlickNo, in de fust place yer don't; an in de second if yer cood, yer'd git yer def of cole goin frum one place to tudder.

"About five years back, I began to notice lights burnin' in that room, long after all other lights, except the street lamps, was put out.

Eyes was watchin' from a hollow where a outlaw Chola lay; Two black, snaky eyes a-yearnin' For Jim's hoss to make the turnin', Then to send a bullet burnin' through his backthe Chola way.

Dey didn' burn nothin', but us hear'd tell o' burnin's in Scooba an' Meridian.

"Dey wuz a pile er bark burnin' in de middle er de flo', en right ober de fier, hangin' fum one er de rafters, wuz Dave; dey wuz a rope roun' his neck, en I didn' haf ter look at his face mo' d'n once fer ter see he wuz dead.