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  • He can tell you all things efn you all cares to go ahll go with you.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

  • "An 'efn yer got time fur ter go 'long o' me ter de shop, an 'sot dar wile I plats on dese baskits fur de oberseer's wife, I'll tell jes wat I hyear' boutn hit."

    Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

  • "Uncle Bob," said Dumps, thoughtfully, "s'posin 'they wuz some little girls l-o-n-g time ergo what stole ernuther little girl outn the winder, an' then run'd erway, an 'waded in er ditch, what they Mammy never would let 'em; efn er jay bird would see 'em, would he tell the deb'l nuthin erbout it?"

    Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

  • But, let erlone dat, yer kin go efn yer wants ter; an 'efn yer'll make has'e an' git yer bunnits, caze I ain't gwine wait no gret wile.

    Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

  • "Efn he do, or efn he don't, I can't say, caze I ain't neber hyeard; but de bes 'way is fur ter keep' way fum 'em."

    Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

  • An 'now, efn yer'll 'scuse me, I'll lef' yer hyear fur ter sorter 'muse yerse'f wile I grin's my ax fur ten' ter yer. '

    Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

  • An 'wen he seed dat, he got pow'ful mad, an' he 'low'd ter his se'f dat efn de Lord spar'd him, he inten' fur ter fix dat Woodpecker.

    Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

  • "An 'efn yer got time fur ter go 'long o' me ter de shop, an 'sot dar wile I plats on dese baskits fur de oberseer's wife, I'll tell jes wat I hyear' boutn hit."

    Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878

  • But, let erlone dat, yer kin go efn yer wants ter; an 'efn yer'll make has'e an' git yer bunnits, caze I ain't gwine wait no gret wile.

    Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878

  • "Uncle Bob," said Dumps, thoughtfully, "s'posin 'they wuz some little girls l-o-n-g time ergo what stole ernuther little girl outn the winder, an' then run'd erway, an 'waded in er ditch, what they Mammy never would let 'em; efn er jay bird would see 'em, would he tell the deb'l nuthin erbout it?"

    Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878

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