erse

• “Dosn't thou 'ear my' erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?”

  The Book of Humorous Verse

• “Then she seemed to come to 'erse'f, an' said, jest as ef nothin 'oncommon had occurred:' Well, gentlemen, why don't you move 'im under a shelter?' an 'with that she squatted down at his head, an' breshed the hair off'n his forehead mighty gentle-like.”

  Northern Georgia sketches,

• “Of co'se, ef you des tackle 'er p'omiskyus she ain't gwine bother' erse'f ter play 'cordin' ter rule; but --”

  Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales

• “An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f.”

  Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

• “She done dead; I done year 'er sesso [39]' erse'f.”

  Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

• “De gal, she tuck'n shuck 'erse'f' fo 'de lookin'-glass a time er two, en den she tipt ter de do' en open 'it little ways en peep out des lak she skeer'd some un gwine ter hit' er a clip side de head.”

  Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

• “Quite aside from this Chaucerian "erse" slapping, Clemens had also a semi-serious purpose, that of reproducing a past time as he saw it in”

  1601

• “Jim, he tuck'n light on de mule, an 'de mule she up'n hump' erse'f, an den dey wuz a skuffle, an 'w'en de dus' blow 'way, dar lay de nigger on de groun', an 'de mule she stood eatin' at de troff wid wunner Jim's gallusses wrop 'roun' her behime-leg.”

  Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser

• “less it's Miss Sally' erse'f, w'at kin keep me down.”

  Nights With Uncle Remus

• “Dosn't thou 'ear my' erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?”

  An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

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