deakins

They thought and kind o 'whispered round that the minister or the deakins oughter do it: but Lordy massy! ministers, I s'pose, has feelin's like the rest on us; they don't want to eat all the hard cheeses that nobody else won't eat.

Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

"The minister he had heard the same thing from one of his deakins that day; and when he saw Huldy so kind o 'silent, he says to her,

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900

"The minister he had heard the same thing from one of his deakins that day; and, when he saw Huldy so kind o 'silent, he says to her,' Why don't you sing, my child? '

Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853