 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...tu, A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the...her apples kep' to work, Parin' away like murder. 'You want to see my Pa, I s'pose?' ' Wai ... no ... I come dasignin' ' — ' To see my Ma ? She 's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1896 - 528 pages
...the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' l'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart...her apples kep' to work, Parin' away like murder. " You want to see my Pa, I s'pose ? " " Wai ... no ... I come dasignin' " — " To see my Ma ? She... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
...the scraper: All ways to once her feelin's flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o• l'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle; His heart...her apples kep' to work. Parin' away like murder. " You want to see my Pa, I s'pose ? " "Wai— no — I come dasignin'"— " To see my Ma ? She's sprinklin'... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1920 - 412 pages
...it, tu, A-raspin' in the scraper — All ways to once her feelin' flew Like sparks of burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the...pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle. An' yit she gin her cheek a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Farm' away like murder.... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in .burnt-tip paper. s& He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the...heart kep' goin' pity-pat, . But hern went pity Zekle. <x> An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work,... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - American poetry - 1923 - 554 pages
...A-raspin' on the' scraper, — All ways to once her feelin's flew M Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the...heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle. 25 An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk "You want to see my Pa, I s'pose?" "Wal. . . no . . .I come dasignin'"... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - Poetry - 1924 - 522 pages
...tu, A-raspiu" on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goiu' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle. An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1922 - 1086 pages
...sekle, His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle. 20 An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ex though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Pariu' away like murder. ' You want to see my Pa, I s'pose ? ' 2s ' Wai, no ; I come designin' ' —... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle. His heart kep' goin' pitty-pat, But hern went pity Zekle. An' yit she gin her cheer...her apples kep' to work, Parin' away like murder. " You want to see my Pa, I s'pose ?" " Wai ... no ... I come dasignin' " " To see my Ma ? She 's sprinklin1... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - Americanisms - 1925 - 412 pages
...representative. Such dialect color as the Biglow Papers have is illustrated in the following stanzas : An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished...her apples kep" to work, Parin' away like murder. "You want to see my Pa, I s'pose?" "Wai ... no ... I come dasignin' — " ' 'To see my Ma? She's sprinklin1... | |
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