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Moreover, the dialect that snags the reader in print "Whoy, dudn't ee knaw . . . as Jan Vry wur gane avore braxvass" emerges here as fluid speech, its cadence a joy to hear.

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Dadds, looking at me queerly, ‘as Jan Vry wur gane avore braxvass.’

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An 'avore the green leaves in the fall wer gone by,

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His oratory conquered the coyness of the fishy damsel; and he invited the lady to take a glass of "zomat avore he topped his boom for Swanwidge."

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But when you be a-lost vrom the parish, zome more Will come on in your pleazen to bloom an 'to die; An' the zummer will always have maidens avore Their doors, vor to chatty an 'zee volk goo by.

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After we've 'ad a slaip, Jasper, we'll talk a bit avore the booys do come up to supper.

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But when you be a-lost vrom the parish, zome more Will come on in your pleazen to bloom an 'to die; An' the zummer will always have maidens avore Their doors, vor to chatty an 'zee volk goo by.

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On our way there, avore ever we got so far south as Cape Blanc, we captured a Portingal caravel; pickin 'up another of 'em a little way to the nor'ard of Cape Verde.

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But Garge have got the fiend's own gift for tongues and languages, and the night avore we sailed he happened to be ashore lookin 'round Santander, and while he were standin' on one side of a pillar in a church he heard two Spanishers on t'other side of that there same pillar talkin 'about the embargo that King Philip was goin' to declare again 'the English at midnight that very night as ever was.

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