"Whom has she been to see?"
"Dat poor gal."
"Who is that girl, do you know?
"Yas, sah," said the honest old man.
"You know more to-day than you did yesterday."
"Yas, sah."
"Why don't you tell me who she is."
"You did'nt ax me, you said did I know?"
"I don't want any of your nigger talk. I want her name, and by the great ----"
"Look yer, Mas'r Benton, if you's gwine to dip in an' swar, I'll tote long by myself."