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When they fust came down, I sez to cook, I sez--'Lord bless 'em, they must 'ave all starved in their own 'omes'--an' she laughed--she 'avin 'sperience, an' cooked for 'ouse-parties ever since she learned makin' may'nases [mayonnaise] which she sez was when she was twenty, an' she's a round sixty now, an' she sez, 'Lor, no!

—God's Good Man

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Jest what the colonel done The colonel did n't wait for no second thought; he jest reached out his big bony hands 'nd he sez, "Young woman, gi' me that baby"--sez it so quiet 'nd so gentle like that seemed like it wuz the baby's mother that wuz a-speakin The colonel took the baby, and--now, may be you won't believe me--the colonel held that baby 'nd rocked it in his arms 'nd talked to it like it had been his own child. — Second Book of Tales
I sez, and up I jumps on the parapet pulling a machine gun with me A machine gun!" — The Red Horizon
'I don't want ye to'--sez 'e, quite peart. — The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
An' she ups an' sez--'Don't be blaspheemous, Twitt,--I'll tell parson'--an' I sez--'Tell 'im, old 'ooman, if ye likes!' — The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
An' when she tells 'im, 'e smiles nice an' kind, an' sez--'It's quite lawful, Mrs. Twitt, to quote Scriptural thanksgiving on all necessary occasions!' — The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches