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Examples
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"We 'ear' im 'ere, w'ile we're workin', an 'it's terrible, I say, terrible!"
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"Miss Letitia, I's been speakin 'wi' Sarah 'bout gettin 'married when we gets the store fixed; an' 'pears like de saw is good w'ile comin', so I's speakin ''bout not waitin' no longer, but jes get married anyhow."
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You knowed de young ladies ud all start first, so you said to William, dat's you yessef, 'I'll get dese critters in dar, w'ile' Titia's a pickin 'up an' gittin 'ready, so I'll cut off' er comin ',' an 'de school misses 'long too.
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Peggy, en it kep 'wukkin fer a w'ile, en makin' Hannibal's feet bu'n mo 'er less,' tel all de folks on de plantation got ter callin '' im Hot-Foot
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Ole marster en ole mis 'look' de two boys ober, en 'sco'sed wid deyse'ves fer a little w'ile, en den Mars' Dugal 'sez, sezee: --
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"Miss 'Becca can't ride de ole mare tid-day, 'cause she' way down in de pasture, an 'anybody can't ketch um in tree hour time; an' you can't ride de mule, Miss Jane, 'cause you ma done tell me I must tek good care o 'you an' de house w'ile she gone, an 'I ain't gwine let you broke you' neck or you 'arm -- not tid-day."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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'You won't hab no mouf ner years, but I kin turn yer back oncet in a w'ile, so yer kin git sump'n ter eat, en hear w'at's gwine on.'
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En atter a w'ile he got one er de quarest notions you eber hearn tell un.
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Wiley didn 'died fum de woun' he got in Mars McIntyre's hen-'ouse; he got well atter a w'ile, but Dilsey wouldn 'hab nuffin mo' ter do wid
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I wisht I wuz a tree, er a stump, er a rock, er sump'n w'at could stay on de plantation fer a w'ile. '
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