The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-26
STATE LEVY
4 Study in Yaaksa .Dialect.


ned and laughed over the pr6vihcialism
of the Georgia Cracker and tie Vast
eFn Hoosier, and 4 have for YOU some
Of the expressions of the ,Down7Efst
Yankee | have recently been Visiting
the mountains OF Maine and New
Hampshire, aud while enjoying the
sights nayseH, collected seme fof the
sounds for you; they are in this book
and she handed me a small memoran-.
dunn. ~
- ~ on can beg that off with you'' hig,
mind you, and not tote. as the South
erner would say, nor tack, a la the.
Western man.
4''Ezhy. how gou talkra I responded,
as my ewes fell on that quotation in the
little book.
Yes laughingly she rejoined, that
is one expression of surprise, and 1
aCd71t 10 k}s0a0 is another, with there
aare. and Gu tell! for wild explanations
of WONDER T
And then we drew our chairs near to-
gether, like two school children, one
knowing the lesson and teaching it TO
the other. f
I will post YOU first as to swearing
she began. ssI'he Southerner w no does
not use a big, big d. says III be dog
go7sed, too long and lazy an expression
for the Yankee. He says saUdn CT
swear) or 1 swuni, or if he must use a
ID. he says dstns, as ctatna fool, dam sras-
cal. etc"
Where We're you when you wrote
this book?n
please study its photography and
speak by it, she interrupted. Il aer9t
what you have before you in Oxford
county, Me. / see people there on a
holiday from all over the country, q
asarster large crowd. How the men did
saOof1 bosses, watches, boots. and knives
on that day. 1t was an enjoyable coca
sion. Two men fit, but neither were
much hurt. Two boys elm tall fa5'
(fir) tree, that made me kinder nareous;
/ was skeered they would fall and get
scru1ached. An LajeGR encampment WAS
once Jest where we ct dinner.
THAT is very good, CJary 4ug1tsiy.
remarked her husband. $50 on and
tell about Mss Hills husbands boss. .
..Waal, wish you could have seen
that oaainlal-he was such p0oty COO
ter (pretty creature). l couldn't help
begT7tcIs5R Mr.. Hill. for the d7aifnii was
not a-skeered of anything, not even the
kers. He was horse of great gatty
(value). He was full of sperret, but
MISS Hflfs Totsng-stsas have rid an
often He was as round as a be77il,
and fine reader Charles, be you
really sgo7a-ter, buy himP' she asked of
her husband.
.sEf / could git red of two now have
the fast house I sot foot into would be
Hills
What did you find to eat SO far
NorthP'' / inquired.
Chickens. atgs. butter, 6ris,. (ber-
ries9 and cake (biscnit). The last Sun
day we vas in Oxford we had billed
fowl for dinner and it g0gr .q7ao1strosts
nice. I think the water of them folks
wells be the best ever drinked. Them
people is mighty clever, but awful curts:
Now there is Bill Haslxill as has been
keepin' company with .Lizy Jaae Wig
gins nigh onto twelve years, and they
hataat married yit There is Df5ss Stelr
lings, a s0tdde7- aoofna1a with a sight O
money, but thea sag she sot so much
store BIZ her husband Qoved him so
much) that she wont let. no man keep
company with her Although the sun
was qasarster hot skeersely anybody had
uass5rSls Gum brellas). l had a lace
fringed parasol with me, but when a-iz 1
lit [ see two or three steeg5n' at me SO
hard / took it down. The dressing OF
some of the men was moi stylish. Some
of the cots (coats) fitgaunss,sg (uncouth).
"A few men always sol kerled ZIP Crook
ed) as ef they had the s'unatiz. - eD
Hampshire Correspondence of the Boston
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