Poe. Gone away?
Zu. O Lawd, I forgot you don’ know! Why, honey, Mars Nelson he come jes now an’ frisk her off to school. Zip! an’ Babylam’ gone! An’ law, ef you seen dat po’ chile cryin’!
Poe. She cried, Zurie?
Zu. Deed she did, and she ax me twenty hundred times to tell her bru’r Edgah goodbye.
Poe. Virginia gone?
Zu. I done tol’ yo, Mars Edgah! Sho’ yo’ don’t think ol’ Zurie know how ter tell lies, does yo’, honey?
Poe. No, Zurie, I know she is gone. The birds have all stopped singing.
Zu. Law, Mars Edgah, dey jes be a chipperin’! Heah dat now?
Poe. That is not a song, Zurie. It is a wail from Stygian boughs.
Zu. O, yo’ go way!