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'And I chose the red; it's so much gayer, and folk can see me the farther off. Feyther likes to see me at first turn o' t' lane, don't yo', feyther? and I'll niver turn out when it's boun' for to rain, so it shall niver get a spot near it, mammy. 'I reckoned it were to wear i' bad weather, said Bell. She said it in a kindly tone, though the words became a prudent rather than a fond mother.
Now, don't yer know dat ef he was dead dey wouldn't be a suin' on him an' a swearin' he'd run away?" "I'm sure I don't know, but it would seem so," responded Mollie. "Seem so! it's boun' ter be so, honey," said the colored woman, positively. "I don't know, I'm sure," said Mollie. "It's a matter I don't understand.
The fact is, a man can't be married according to law without two names." "So hit appears; but ain't it quare dat I should hev ole Mahs'r's name widout his gibbin' it ter me, ner my axin' fer it, Mister?" "It may be, but that's the way, you see." "So hit seems. 'Pears like I'm boun' ter hev mo' names 'n I knows what ter do wid, jes' kase I's free.
'Dat dawg ain' good fo' nothin' ailse; so I jes rickon he 'th boun' to be a coon dawg;" and the author of "Snow in April" pounded the arm of his chair and roared till the gas-fixtures vibrated. Then at last, taking advantage of a lull in the talk, Rosella, unable to contain her patience longer, found breath to remark: "And 'Patroclus' my my little book?" "Ah hum, yes. 'Patroclus, your story.
Some no doubt looked forward to the sport and excitement, but I soon perceived that the greater number were betting upon the result! "The Belle's boun' to win!" cried a gold-studded vulgar-looking fellow at my shoulder. "I'll go twenty dollars on the Belle. Will you bet, stranger?" "No," I replied, somewhat angrily, as the fellow had taken a liberty by laying his hand on my shoulder.
Ivery time I heerd the owd man hoast I thought he were boun' to dee. But he was better that day nor he'd been for a long while, and he kept mending all the time. I couldn't forget, howiver, what I'd done, and the thought of how I'd yielded to the devil's ticement made me more patient and gentle wi' Jerry nor iver I'd been afore.
The fellow said he had gone over once on a raft, when the water was much higher. "An' would yeou b'lieve it," he added, "one o' them 'ere wimmen were boun' an' determined tew come wuth us." "Did she go?" asked Paul. "Neow yeou jus' bet she did." "Well, how did she act?" "I'll tell yeou straanger. I tol' her tew go astern an' hol' on hard tew th' stake.
"'Oh, no, Brer Bull-frog! You ain't de man w'at stick yo' head up out'n de water en tell me Brer Rabbit done gone on by. Oh, no! you ain't de man. I boun' you ain't. 'Bout dat time, you wuz at home with yo' fambly, whar you allers is. I dunner whar you wuz, but I knows whar you is, Brer Bull-frog, en hit's you en me fer it.
Jim Pink was discussing Peter's education. "I 'fo' Gawd kain't see no use goin' off lak dat an' den comin' back an' lettin' a white man cheat you out'n yo' hide an' taller, an' lettin' a black man beat you up tull you has to 'kick him in the spivit. Ef a aidjucation does you any good a-tall, you'd be boun' to beat de white man at one en' uv de line, or de black man at de udder.
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