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Arter so long I got tired er whoopin' en hollerin', en I went ter de nighest house en borrer'd a chunk, en built me a fier by de side er de road, en I set dar en nod twel I git sleepy, en den I pull my blanket 'cross my head en quile up en w'en I do dat, hit's good-bye, Mingo! "Boss," said Mingo, after a little pause, "you don't b'leeve in no ghos'es en sperrits, does you?"
"Hands round!" hurrah for the whirling ellipse; and now it's "right and left" and two ellipses glide opposite ways, "to quile dat golden chain." In the midst of the whirl, when every hand is in some other and men and girls are tossing their heads to get their locks out of their eyes, at the windows come unnoticed changes and two men loiter in by the front hall door, close to the fiddler.
"No," laughed John, "nor they ain't the worst kind, either." "Thass so; the wuss kine is the fellers 'at don't marry 'em. Why, ef I was you, I'd have a wife as pooty as a speckle' hound pup, an' yit one 'at could build biscuits an' cook coffee, too! An' I'd jess quile down at home in my sock feet an' never git up, lessen it wus to eat aw go to bed.
"'They's runnin' blazers on each other, says Crawfish, 'an' don't mean nothin'. Bimeby Caribou Pete which the same is the dog will go lie down an' sleep; an' Julius Caesar will quile up ag'in him to be warm. Caribou, bein' a dog that a-way, is a warm-blood animal, while pore Julius has got cold blood like a fish.
"There ain't nary bitty sense in it." More interesting are substitutions of one sound for another. In mountain dialect all vowels may be interchanged with others. So any other vowel may serve in place of e: sarve, chist, upsot, tumble. The word coil is variously pronounced quile, querl or quorl. They never drop h, nor substitute anything for it.
"Come a-left, come a-right, Come yo' lily-white hand, Fo' to quile dat golden cha ain. O ladies caper light Sweetest ladies in de land NED FERRY's a-comin' down de la ane!" Cries of masculine anger and feminine affright filled the hall, but one ringing order for silence hushed all, and the dance stood still with Ned Ferry in its centre.
So spak the knicht; the geaunt sed, Lend forth with the the sely maid, And mak me quile of the and sche; For glaunsing ee, or brow so brent, Or cheek with rose and lilye blent, Me lists not ficht with the. The tower, before which the party now stood, was a small square building, of the most gloomy aspect.
"Wid dat de yuthers tuck'n made way fer 'im, en ole Brer B'ar he git up on de rock he did, en squot down on he hunkers, en quile he tail und' 'im, en start down.
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