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mind verb To watch, attend to. [OED dates this usage from the 15th century]

1862 Gilley CW Letters (July 13) you can jentle my colt you must mind an not let hit hurt you. 1939 Hall Coll (Sugarlands TN) I heard him a-hollerin’. He called for me to come up there and mind the coons up the tree ... We minded [the bear] up there a good long while. Finally it come down from up there. We had us a big fire made up at the root of the tree. When it come down why we had a good fire light to fight it by. 1973 AOHP/ALC-259 They didn’t claim it [=the chicken pox] minded anything much, in a few days and it was over with. 2007 McMillon Notes Mind the deep hole if ye go swimming.