"I done heah, Massa Tom, dat yo' all's gwine off on a long trip once mo'.
"I I ain't gwine? Does yo' mean dat yo' all ain't gwine to take me, Massa Tom?"
"Oh, I's middlin'; hain't got noth'n' to complain of, I's gwine to come a-court'n you bimeby, Roxy."
'Clah to goodness if dat conceit o' yo'n strikes in, Jasper, it gwine to kill you sho'.
We can't read de newspapers very much, but we knows how to vote, an' we wants you to vote jes' like we votes." He added: "We watches de white man, and we keeps watching de white man till we finds out which way de white man's
gwine to vote; an' when we finds out which way de white man's
gwine to vote, den we votes 'xactly de other way.
She say she spec' Mars Tom
gwine to ax me to whitewash, an' so she tole me go 'long an' 'tend to my own business -- she 'lowed SHE'D 'tend to de whitewashin'."
I'm a-comin', I'm a-comin', an' I'm shorely
gwine to get yer!
Now, I went over thar when Miss Mary was
gwine to be married, and Jinny she jest showed me de weddin' pies.
Hard ears yuh won't hear by and by yuh
gwine feel," he said.