Mr. Jefferson bowed to everybody he meet: talked wid his arms folded.

Mr. Jefferson was a tall strait-bodied man as ever you see, right square-shouldered: Nary a man in this town walked so straight as my old master: neat a built man as ever was seen in Vaginny, I reckon or any place—a straight-up man: long face, high nose.

He kept three fiddles: played in the arternoons & sometimes arter supper. This was in his early time: When he begin to git so old he didn’t play … Mr. Jefferson always singing when ridin or walkin: hardly see him anywhar out doors but what he was a-singin: Had a fine clear voice: sung minnits...

Give them that wukked the best a suit of red or blue: encouraged them mightily.

My old master was as neat a hand as ever you see to make keys & locks & small chains, iron & brass

Old master had abundance of books: sometimes would have twenty of ’em down on the floor at once: read fust one, then tother.