“O Lor’, Massa, a white man tol’ me I should come.”
“What did he want of you?”
“Fo’ to go norf’.”
“And so you were going?”
“Y-e-s—Massa—I—was—fo’—to—go.”
“How?”
“On a railroad undah de groun’.”
“Under the ground?”
“Yes, Massa, so the gem’an said. He was jus’ comin’ to open de way, when Massa da’ cotched me.”
“Who was he?”