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Joe's mother kept up the treatment, gittin 'up in the night to feed that stuff to him; but the poor little boy got wuss and wuss, and one mornin' he says to his mother, says he: 'Mother, I guess I'm goin' to die, and I'd ruther do that than take any more of that medicine, and I wish you'd call Johnny and we'll trade names back agen, and if he don't want to come and do it, you kin tell him he kin keep the old minkskin I gave him to boot, on account of his name havin 'a Wesley in it.'
Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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'Blessin's on the man that invented it,' says I, 'and put folks in the notion of havin' their lawns kept neat, 'cause they could do it cheap. '
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger
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But finally he was coaxed upstairs by Margaret and a box of candy, and, word havin 'been sent down that he was asleep, Sam got out his plug hat, and Grace and Cousin Harriet got on their fur-lined dolmans and knit clouds, and was ready for the hack.
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Mother Charnick wuz tickled most to death at the idea of havin 'Jenette for her own girl -- she thinks her eyes on her, and so does Jenette of her.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881
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Mother Charnick wuz tickled most to death at the idea of havin 'Jenette for her own girl -- she thinks her eyes on her, and so does Jenette of her.
Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4 Marietta Holley 1881
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Does a Chink ever want to ride a horse, hell-bent for election an 'havin' a good time of it?
CHAPTER XI 2010
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It seems like they are basically just 'havin' a laugh '.
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So I says tae Eddie, I'm no fuckin 'havin' this, no wi 'the wean there, ken?
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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So I says tae Eddie, I'm no fuckin 'havin' this, no wi 'the wean there, ken?
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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So I says tae Eddie, I'm no fuckin 'havin' this, no wi 'the wean there, ken?
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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