"Now be a good boy, don't fight no more, and—"
"Yes, I will fight; sister is so wicked; she's just a Mannypochia cobra."
"Oh, law! Massa Bo, that's a awful name. What kind of a animal is it?"
"Well, it's something like a big snake, only fifty times bigger, and it hisses and cracks your bones and—"
"What you gwan do when you go to confession; you got to tell the names you call, and you ain't gwan to 'member dat big word."
"Oh, I'll remember; I'll just say 'Father, my sister was so dreadful, she most broke my bones, so I called her the name of a snake that breaks bones.'"
Hetty laughed, and asked Bo if he was "most ready for his first confessin," telling him he "better don't have too many bad things to tell on other people; Father gwan to tell you: 'Say child you come to tell you' own sins; I don't want to hear what you' sister done did.'"
"But," insisted Bo, "the priest will listen when I tell him how Amy fights over the puppies."
"Better don't, 'cause if you do, Father gwan give you two penances, one for your sins, and another for Amy's sins."