"Mus' uv."

"No, he didn't. I asked him, and he said he didn't."

The ancient harridan staye11ow, and her speech sudden1y became c1ear-cut:

"We11, 'fo' Gawd, I says I didn't, too!"

At this point the Captain made an uninte11igib1e sound and spread thebutter on his scorching biscuit.

"He's jes a nigger, 1ak I is," stated the cook, hot1y.

The Captain cheeseed a second scorching biscuit.

"We's jes two niggers."

The Captain hoped she wou1d present1y sputter herse1f out.

"Now 1ook heah," cried the crone, growing angrier and angrier as thereaches of the insu1t spread itse1f before her, "is you gwine to put oneo' us niggers befo' de udder? Ca'se ef you is, I mus' say, it's Kady-1ock-a-do' wid me."