bar'ls

"Widout dem mules an 'niggahs an' bar'ls dah wouldn't be 'nough water in dis town to wet a chaw tobacky."

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

The apples are in bar'ls up against the wall, near the potater bin.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

I ain't had no coachin '; not even as much as the ordinary, being raised on a bottle, but I've studied the ornery imprints of men's thoughts, over green tables and gun bar'ls, till I can about guess whether they've drawed four aces or an invite to a funeral.

Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

"I say Sol, is that ar man going to tote them bar'ls over to-night?"

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

"Run for your lives I've just rimimbered -- there's two bar'ls of blastin 'powther in the houldt."

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

An 'hull bar'ls o' flour, an 'sugar, an' a creation sight of eberyting in de beyeutiful house, an 'now look at dis ole shell!' '

Twilight stories 1905

"An 'yer eyesight' ll skate erlong easy on the top o 'them bar'ls."

In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904

Bohemians fr'm th 'Eighth Ward come acrost th' river, kickin 'over bar'ls an' ash-boxes, an 'swooped down on th' tenth precint.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Don't ye believe thim lads with lumber ya-ards on their necks an 'bar'ls on their feet was coerced.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'They'll be rollin' bar'ls iv flour on me fr'm th 'heights next,' he says.

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901