buterful

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"Let 'em do whut dey please wid me, Bisco," she said: "Dey can't do nuffin 'to dis po' ole body but sen 'de tired soul on dat journey wher de buterful room is already fix fur it, es you read dis berry night.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
"While Eve wuz sauntrin 'an' roamin eroun 'in de buterful gardin, de ole sarpint, dyked up ter kill, kum gallervantin' down de road an 'he kotch'd site uv Eve an' luk lik he surpriz'd very much but not sorry in de leas '.

John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908