Den Dio tink if him stay him shoot Masser Bracher, so him run 'way and say him find de good cap'n, de only white man who eber say one kind word to poor Dio.
"With Axe and Rifle"
W.H.G. Kingston
Adah asked, and Sam replied: "Gone to Masser-what you say once.
"Bad Hugh"
Mary Jane Holmes
"He'm tailor, Masser Harry," returned the black, without altering a muscle; "if a clothes no 'trong, he nobody blame but heself."
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper