Old Josh: Sweet Bessie (Part III, 1849 - Episode #11)
Josh [Josh to Silas}: Bessie in a bad fix.
Silas (Josh’s boy): Is? Wha ‘ ail she?
Josh: She an’ she ex husband, Sweet Bessie, be back in de woods fishin’ an’ dey was comin’ out through dem ole road in de night. I see wha me own eyes, Sweet Bessie layin’ cross de grass an’ say:
“Look er dere, Hank. Wha’ is dat?” —an’ Hank is dis kind er niger: he just want er show off he can have Bessie, he own wife. He say:
“Yous ain’ nothin’!” An’ he haul off an’ hit her. He dthink it was rotten fer her to be with me. I see an’ den de fun start. Hank have sense ‘nough to run when he sees me an’ had de knife in me hand; an’ she callin’ to de Lord to save her and he. She tell de Lord bite Josh, no wey. She say ef he ain’t loss his mind.
Silas: Sho’ is lucky dey have fast legs like dat.
Josh: She is save him, but he kow I kind er ooman to he now.
Silas: Wuh mke you say dat?
Josh: I thought I knows so much ‘bout womens I find out I anin’t know nothin’, but I larn dis: watch you’ step and den keep you’ eye on you’ own step, too.
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