“I told you to go and hoe those yams, and you neglected the duty to go fishing.”
“Yes, sir, go fishing; kedge terrupum.”
“Instead of doing your work.”
“Mass’ Morgan, sah,” began Pomp, in a tone of protest, but Morgan interrupted him.
“Now then, how is it those yams are not hoed?”
“Don’t know, sah. Tell Hannibal hoe them.”
“You told Hannibal to hoe them—your father?”
“Yes, tell um fader hoe um; Mass’ Morgan want um done.”
“Yes, but I wanted you to do them.”
“Yes, sah, and I want um fader to hoe um yam while I go kedge terrupum. You make big holler at um for not do um.”