Think hogs goin' stay in pen with gap open-ef any WUZ dyah to went in!"
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
"Yes'm, that's so; that's jes' what I WUZ gwine do," the boys heard him say.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
I WUZ born on dis place an' I 'spec' to die here, an' be buried right yonder;" and he turned and pointed up to the dark clumps of trees that marked the graveyard on the hill, a half mile away, where the colored people were buried.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page