And, darfor', dat wont do!
"Den mars'r trot away to war
With 'Dolphus by his side,—
A poor cream-colored, common dark
Dat isn't worf his hide.
He leab me and de other nigs
To clar the place alone,
With nuffin' but to play and shake
De fiddle and de bone.
"I hab a talk with Uncle Pete,