Joel Chandler Harris,
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings…
(1886)
“ Hit’s done got so it’s agin de law fer ter bus’ loose an’ kill a nigger, ain’t it, boss?”“Well, I should say so. You don’t mean to tell me that you have killed a colored man, do you?”“I speck I is, boss. I speck I done gone an’ done it dis time, sho.’ Hit’s bin sorter growin’ on me, an’ it come ter a head dis mawnin’, ’less my name ain’t Remus, an’ dat’s w’at dey bin er callin’ me sence I wuz ole er ’nuff fer ter scratch myse’f wid my lef’ han’.”“Well, if you’ve killed a man, you’ll have some fun, sure enough. ”
