SLIM (jerkily)
Me an’ Mink Hall—an’ some oder niggahs—in a game ovah by dem coal chutes. She sneak ’long by Graley’s ice house—den run out on de wharf an’ th’u it in. Me an’ Mink seen ef we would save it—but it was’n’ no use. It—it was too da’k. Soon as ’Luce seen me she run’ as fas’ as she coul’. I believe she gone plum crazy.
AUNT REBECCA
Gawd-a-massy! Gawd-a-massy! Dat po’ chile! I knowed somefin’ tumble gwine ter happen.
SLIM
Yo’—yo’ ain’ seen her, is yo’?
AUNT REBECCA
Gawd-a-massy, no!
SLIM
Come on! Le’s see ef we kin fin’ her.