Foh de day befoh de weddin' was gwine ter be, she ups an' she runs off wid a Yankee frien' of her brother, Kunnel Tom Buckner.

An' I'se 'spec' Kunnel Tom an' Marse Prent McMakin would o' settle' HIM ef dey evah had o' cotched him--dat dar David Ahmstrong!" "Who ?" says I.
"David Ahmstrong was his entitlement," says George, "an' he been gwine to de same college as Marse Tom Buckner, up no'th somewhah.

Dat's how-come he been visitin' Marse Tom des befoh de weddin' trouble done settle HIT se'f dat-away." Well, it give me quite a turn to run onto the mention of that there David Armstrong agin in this part of the country.

Here he had been jilting Miss Hampton way up in Indiany, and running away with another girl down here in Tennessee.

Then it struck me mebby it is jest different parts of the same story I been hearing of, and Martha had got her part a little wrong.
"George," I says, "what did you say Miss Lucy Buckner's gran-dad's name was ?" "Kunnel Hampton--des de same as MY Miss Lucy befo' SHE done ma'hied Marse Willyum." That made me sure of it.