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Maybe she wants me to cotch up with her.

Any man could cotch him, turn him in for the reward.

"Somebody could come by tomorrow and cotch me.

"None of your dawdling, or the Moon Man will cotch you."

Maybe we can cotch one of 'em alone."

Dis critter 'bout ready to cotch fire, you bet.

You'll cotch it!

As long as it says I'm a runaway slave, anybody who wants can cotch me, turn me in for a reward.

He wasn't gonna let 'em cotch him.

And you missies know somethin' about how they didn't cotch him that day.'

"Den if it's down heah, maybe we cotch 'em," suggested the colored man.

"Did you cotch him, Massa Tom?"

He cotch one glimpse of me, an' he jump an' holler: "Bless goodness, uncle!

See if I don't cotch her, now; Mas'r'll see what Sam can do!"

"Mas'r see'd me cotch a coon, High boys, high!

'But how didn't they cotch ye?'

Don't let 'em cotch you!"

'They didn't cotch him,' said Jim Wooddall.

Weeyum wasn't gonna let anybody cotch him, take him back to Marse Yates.

Now I want both of us to keep on livin', and the only way to do that is to go after them 'fore they cotch us."

Mas'r wants you to cotch Bill and Jerry," said Andy, cutting short Sam's soliloquy.

You been runnin' away from me for near a week, and now you wants me with you so the bad men won't cotch you?"

Swar away, ole fellow (says I to myself ); will yer have yer hoss now, or wait till you cotch him?

I'll cotch him for yo'-all, Massa Tom," and, muttering to himself, the aged colored man endeavored to assume the activity of former years.

"Mas'r, shall we shoot 'em, if can't cotch 'em?"

But I'll kotch up to him yet, don't you trouble none about that."

They men jump out, kotch me by the cane field, figure they take me to sell.

And what do y'know, dat tree it kotch fire and burn down de whole house.

Once I kotch up to him, I mean to stave his head in and nail his fly-bit hide to my door."