"Jis' hear dat--massy on us--only jis' listen to de chile," said she, "talks jis' de same as if he was white.

Why, boy, where you learn all dat ?" "Across the Red Sea," cried Charlie, in answer to a question from the desk of the superintendent.
"'Cross de Red Sea! Umph, chile, you been dere ?" asked Aunt Comfort, with a face full of wonder.
"What did you say ?" asked Charlie, whose attention had been arrested by the last question.
"Why I asked where you learned all dat 'bout de children of Israel." "Oh, I learned that at Philadelphia," was his reply; "I learned it at school with the rest of the boys." "You did!" exclaimed she, raising her hands with astonishment.

"Is dere many more of 'em like you ?" Charlie did not hear this last question of Aunt Comfort's, therefore she was rather startled by his replying in a loud tone, "_Immense hosts_." "Did I ever--jis' hear dat, dere's ''mense hostes' of 'em jest like him! only think of it.

Is dey all dere yet, honey ?" "They were all drowned." "Oh, Lordy, Lordy," rejoined she, aghast with horror; for Charlie's reply to a question regarding the fate of Pharaoh's army, had been by her interpreted as an answer to her question respecting his coloured schoolmates at Philadelphia.
"And how did you 'scape, honey," continued she, "from drowning 'long wid the rest of 'em ?" "Why I wasn't there, it was thousands of years ago." "Look here.

What do you mean ?" she whispered; "didn't you say jest now dat you went to school wid 'em ?" This was too much for Charlie, who shook all over with suppressed laughter; nor was Miss Cass proof against the contagion--she was obliged to almost suffocate herself with her handkerchief to avoid a serious explosion.
"Aunt Comfort, you are mistaking him," said she, as soon as she could recover her composure; "he is answering the questions of the superintendent--not yours, and very well he has answered them, too," continued she.