But Lor' bless you, when de Linkum sogers come, I couldn't stay no longer.

I took and runned away." "And here you are, then." "Yes, Mass' Richard, here I is, for sure." "How do you like the North, Chloe ?" "Don't like it as well as de Souf.

It's too cold," and Chloe shivered.
"But you would rather be here than there ?" "Yes, Mass' Richard.

Here I own myself.

Don't have no oberseer to crack his whip at me now.