For Brian and Tarik
"Why, Huck, doan' de French people talk de same way we does?"
"No, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said - not a single word."
"Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?"
"I don't know; but it's so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy - what would you think?"
"I wouldn' think nuffin; I'd take en bust him over de head - dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat."
"No, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said - not a single word."
"Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?"
"I don't know; but it's so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy - what would you think?"
"I wouldn' think nuffin; I'd take en bust him over de head - dat is, if he warn't white. I wouldn't 'low no nigger to call me dat."