 | Emily Faithfull - Latter Day Saint women - 1884 - 434 pages
...Courtin' " — a satire really applied by a Boston critic to an eminent English lecturer : — " Ho stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t' other ; And on the one he felt the wurst He couldn't luw told you nuther ;" but the unsatisfactory... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 394 pages
...acts so or so, Or don't, 'ould be presumin' ; Mebby to mean yes an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell...the wust He could n't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, " I 'd better call agin ; " Says she, "Think likely, Mister^: Thet last word pricked him like a pin,... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 628 pages
...spell on one foot fust,6 Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust7 He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, " I'd better call agin...Mister:'' Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' . . . Wai,8 he up an' kist her. 1 cheer = chair: the colloquial form represents the old English pronunciation.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 pages
...spell on t' other, An' on which one he felt the wust He could n't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, "I 'd better call agin " ; Says she, " Think likely, Mister"...last word pricked him like a pin, An' .... Wai, he up an1 kist her. When Ma bimeby upon 'em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1887 - 472 pages
...Wai, no ; I come designm' — " " To see my Ma? She 's sprinklin' clo'ea Agin to-morrow's i'nin'." He stood a spell on one foot fust Then stood a spell on tother, An' on which one he felt tiie wust He could n't ha' told ye, nuther, Sez he, " I 'd better call agin " ; Sez she, " Think likely.... | |
 | Girls' friendly society - 1885 - 264 pages
...spell on one foot first, Then stood a spell on t'other, And on which one he felt the worst He couldn't ha' told ye, nuther. Says he, " I'd better call agin." Says she, " Think likely, Mister." The last word pricked him like a pin, And— wal, he up and kist her. When Ma bimeby upon 'cm slips,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pages
...— " " To see my Ma? She 's sprinklin' clo'es Agin to-morrow's i'nin'." He stood a spell cm one font fust Then stood a spell on tother, An' on which one he felt thi \vnst He could n't ha' told ye, nuther. Sez he, " 1 'd better call agin " ; Sez she, " Think likely,J/r... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...presumin'; Mebby5 to mean yea an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot -fust,6 Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust7 He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, " I'd better call agin ; " Says she, "Think likely,... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 528 pages
...acts so or so, Or don't, 'ould be presumin' ; Mebby to mean yes an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. ii. 8* Says he, " I'd better call ag'in ;" Says she, "Think likely, Mister;"... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 752 pages
...gals act so or so, Or don't, 'ould be presumin' ; Mebby to mean yes an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot fust. Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, " I'd better call agin"; Says she, "Think likely, Mister"; Thet... | |
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An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, "I'd better call agin," Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' — wal, he up an 
