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? ? ? ? "But some says he got out and got away, and come to America."

? ? ? ? "Dat's good! But he'll be ooty lonesome- dey ain' no kings here, is dey, Huck?"

? ? ? ? "No."

? ? ? ? "Den he cain't git no situation. What he gwyne to do?"

? ? ? ? "Well, I don't know. Some of them gets on the police, and some of them learns people how to talk French."

? ? ? ? "Why, Huck, doan' de French people talk de same way we does?"

? ? ? ? "No, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said- not a single word."

? ? ? ? "Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?"

? ? ? ? "I don't know; but it's so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. Spose a man was to come to you and say 'Polly-voo-franzy'- what would you think?"

? ? ? ? "I wouldn't think nuff'n; I'd take en bust him over de head. Dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat."

? ? ? ? "Shucks, it ain't calling you anything. It's only saying do you know how to talk French.


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