yo'ng

Every Wednesday and Saturday Andrew Jackson Jefferson, whose name was as queer a combination as himself, for he seemed to be about half _horse_, so wonderful was his understanding of those animals, and so more than wonderful _theirs_ of him, took his "yo'ng sem'nary ladies a-gallopin 'th'oo de windin's ob de kentry roads," proud as a Drum Major of his charges.

A Dixie School Girl

It's dese yo'ng ladies I has ter bat my eyes at; an 'dey shore do keep me busy sometimes.

A Dixie School Girl

For days Mammy had been "as res'less an 'onsettled as a yo'ng tuckey long 'bout Thanksgivin' time," as she expressed it, and had found it difficult to settle down to her ordinary routine of work during the preceding two weeks.

Peggy Stewart at School

When I sees yo 'two a kitin' way over de fiel's an 'de fences, I says ter ma sef, Gawd-a-mighty, Je'ome, yo's got one pintedly hansome yo'ng mistess

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

"Kyant yo 'just give her a hint dat yo's a yo'ng lady and we-all's mistiss?"

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

Me, w'en I was yo'ng I sore for cause no woman want me.

The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911

"Which you lak best?" she asked presently, "the big one, the black one, the red one, yo'ng one?"

The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911

When I yo'ng, no man so strong lak me on a paddle.

The Huntress Hulbert Footner 1911

Have I not observe 'you lookin' at these pretty creature ', the little contadina-girl, an' the poor ladies who have hire 'their carriages for two lire to drive up and down the Pincio in their bes' dress an 'be admire' by the yo'ng American while the music play '?

His Own People Booth Tarkington 1907

But you, you yo'ng men of the new generation, you are gentlemen of the idleness; you are aristocrats, with polish an 'with culture.

His Own People Booth Tarkington 1907