" "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 nuff'n; I'd take en bust him over de head - dat is, if he warn't white.

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