erse

Dosn't thou 'ear my' erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

Dosn't thou 'ear my' erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

Then she seemed to come to 'erse'f, an' said, jest as ef nothin 'oncommon had occurred:' Well, gentlemen, why don't you move 'im under a shelter?' an 'with that she squatted down at his head, an' breshed the hair off'n his forehead mighty gentle-like.

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Of co'se, ef you des tackle 'er p'omiskyus she ain't gwine bother' erse'f ter play 'cordin' ter rule; but --

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

She done dead; I done year 'er sesso [39]' erse'f.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

De gal, she tuck'n shuck 'erse'f' fo 'de lookin'-glass a time er two, en den she tipt ter de do' en open 'it little ways en peep out des lak she skeer'd some un gwine ter hit' er a clip side de head.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

She done dead; I done year 'er sesso [39]' erse'f.

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

De gal, she tuck'n shuck 'erse'f' fo 'de lookin'-glass a time er two, en den she tipt ter de do' en open 'it little ways en peep out des lak she skeer'd some un gwine ter hit' er a clip side de head.

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Quite aside from this Chaucerian "erse" slapping, Clemens had also a semi-serious purpose, that of reproducing a past time as he saw it in

1601 Mark Twain 1872