larnen

"Oh, yes; I'm larnen 'em all the time, and sometimes I can mix 'em up so I fool myself."

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

By so doing he disgusts the old man, who exclaims, "Oh, that I should ever had been such a dolt as to take thee for a man of larnen '!"

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

But after ye've fell in the mud a time ur tu an 'then ye don't no enuf tu keep outen hit, ye ain't much; ye're only gettin' muddy an 'not larnen eny sense, an' thar ain't much hope fur ye. "

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden