betta

Pale, but prepared to meet the worst, Paula returned to the squalid room she occupied with her faithful Betta.

Paula passed a fearful night in the small, frightfully hot prison-cell in which she and Betta were shut up.

This one mo' betta,' he added, pointing to the house where the drunken captain slumbered: 'Take-a-sun all-e-time.'

More betta you get anoda compado sah—some good plaupa man dat no smokee.

Oh, yes; she's a great deal betta than she was befo'e we came.