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" John in a minute, and have him here to listen to this 'sperience, I'll tuck you up when I git home and give you a hundred and fifty lashes, madam! — see ef I don't! Blessed Lord!" — referring again to the Captain's relation — "aint it a precious... "
Yankee humour, and Uncle Sam's fun. With an intr. by W. Jerdan - Page 5
by Yankee humour - 1853
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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers ...

Johnson Jones Hooper - 1846 - 252 pages
...referring again to the Cap tain's relation — " aint it a precious 'scource !" " I was jist a-lhinkin' how I should play some trick to turn it all into redecule,...little that brother" — pointing to the reverend gentlemen who had so successfully carried the unbeliever through the Old and New Testaments, and who...
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Simon Suggs' Adventures and Travels: Comprising All the Scenes, Incidents ...

Johnson Jones Hooper - 1858 - 402 pages
...Blessed Lord !" — referring again to the Cap tain's relation — " aint it a precious 'scource !" " I was jist a-thinkin' how I should play some trick...little that brother" — pointing to the reverend gentlemen who had so successfully carried the unbeliever through the Old and New Testaments, and who...
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Oddities in Southern Life and Character

Henry Watterson - 1910 - 528 pages
...mass John in a minute, and have him here to listen to his 'sperience, I 'll tuck you up when I git home and give you a hundred and fifty lashes, madam!...they began to come round me and talk. Long at fust I did n't mind it, but arter a little that brother," pointing to the reverend gentleman who had so successfully...
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Simon Suggs' Adventures: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers, Together with ...

Johnson Jones Hooper - 1928 - 152 pages
...ef I don't! Blessed Lord!" referring to the Captain's relation — "aint it a precious 'scource!" / "I was jist a-thinkin how I should play some trick to turn it all I into redecule, when they began to come round me and talk. Long ]at fust I didn't mind it, but artcr...
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The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor

Edward Piacentino - 2006 - 344 pages
...wring with his fingers, to free it of the superabundant moisture" and begins to testify: I was just a-thinkin' how I should play some trick to turn it...I didn't mind it, but arter a little that brother . . . spoke a word that struck me kleen to the heart, and run all over me, like fire in dry grass —...
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