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  • I've thried to tell them some of our old tales, but -- I dun'no '-- they've kind o' gone from me, now I've such a lot to do.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • "I dun'no 'as I have any objections to your staying, then," said the farmer.

    The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

  • "I dun'no 'as I want any," he remarked as he pounded.

    Squirrel. 1900

  • "Andrew, I dun'no 'but you'd better go up there and see if she's comin' home," said Fanny; and he answered heavily that maybe he had better, when they heard wheels, which stopped before the house.

    The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • "Jim don't act as if he thought so much of me, an 'I dun'no' as I wonder," she told her sister.

    The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • "Waal, I dun'no '; jes talkin' round," said Nehemiah, posed beyond recuperation.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • "I dun'no ''bout that; books an' edication in gin'ral air toler'ble useful wunst in a while;" he was thinking of the dark art of dividing and multiplying by fractions.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • I dun'no 'ez I ever hearn him shout once, but his wife air one o' the reg'lar, mournful, unrejicing members, always questioning the decrees of

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • The las 'raid, ye' member, we hed the still over yander; "he jerked his thumb in the direction present to his thoughts, but unseen by his coadjutors;" a man war wounded, an 'we dun'no' but what killed in the scuffle, an 'it mought be a hang-in' matter ter git caught now.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • "An 'Ty ain't afeard o' bars," she silently commented, "nor wolves, nor wind, nor lightning, nor man in enny kind o 'a free fight; but bekase he dun'no' how the _law_ stands, an 'air afeard the law _mought_ be able ter take Lee-yander, he jes sets thar ez pitiful ez a lost kid, fairly ready ter blate aloud."

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

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