So Dog lef' them gone to get dinner.
By Dog gone, Quashy come out of the house, go into Dog buttery, see two green pear, take them out go hide them.
Ratta see him go over the kitchen cry out:—"Why, why, why! Quashy take you pear; you no yerry? Quashy take ahm gone."
By Dog get in the house Quashy was in already sitting down look quite meek an' christianable.
Dog lef' them go see if his pear was there.
When he go there was none, an' Dog don't like nothing as his pear an' bone, an' he get vex, take all the dinner t'row it 'way, go in the house take down his 'tick.
By the time Dog fe lick one of the Puss everybody was on a tree on the far side of Dog yard.
Dog swear all sort of bad word fe the one that take him green pear.
Everybody say:—"Thank God me no eat green pear."
Finger Quashy said:—"Lard! what a man fe swear!"