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It got so dat de creeturs hatter go 'way off some'rs ef dey wanter git any sleep, an' it seem like dey can't git so fur off but what Brer Bull-Frog would wake um up time dey git ter dozin 'good.
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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I'll bet they caught it up in the Maine woods some'rs.
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Then Mas 'Henry' Cherd -- he's gemman been livin 'couple o' yeahs 'er so down to near Vicksburg, some'rs; he's out huntin' now with the
The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890
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Them must be lucky deestric's that's got gas, an 'I'd like to hev somebody strike it' round here some'rs, jist fer the sake o 'havin' the chance to see a balloon h'istin ''fore I turn my toes up.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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He rolled right over an 'over to'rds us, n' befo 'we c'd rightly see wat wuz comin', we cu'dnt see anythin '' tall; we wuz all grabbin 'at nothin', some'rs underneath the whale.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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You'll hatter go some'rs else ef you wanter raise enny racket, 'sezee, en wid dat he shet de do'.
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 Frederick Stuart 1881
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En den youer allers some'rs whar you got no bizness, 'sez Brer Fox, sezee.
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 Frederick Stuart 1881
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Ole Brer Rabbit, he wuz off some'rs raiding on a collard patch, en ole Miss Rabbit she wuz tendin 'on a quiltin' in de naberhood, en wiles de little Rabbits wuz playin 'hidin'-switch, in drapt Brer Fox.
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 Frederick Stuart 1881
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But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs in de naberhood, w'ich ef dey'd git inter dey'd be wash off nice en w'ite, en den one un um, he fine de place en make er splunge inter de pon ', en come out w'ite ez a town gal.
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 Frederick Stuart 1881
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But atter 'w'ile de news come dat dere wuz a pon' er water some'rs in de naberhood, w'ich ef dey'd git inter dey'd be wash off nice en w'ite, en den one un um, he fine de place en make er splunge inter de pon ', en come out w'ite ez a town gal.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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