morest

She did bin lub B'er Cooter, but she lub B'er Deer de morest.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

She did bin lub B'er Cooter, but she lub B'er Deer de morest.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

De morest part ob de mens dey git heaps o 'clo' -- more 'n nuff;' n I ain't git nuffin. '

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

De morest part ob de mens dey git heaps o 'clo' -- more'n

Slave Songs of the United States. 1867

En den, bless grash us! w'en de fokes seed it, dey make a break fer de pon ', en dem w'at wuz de soopless, dey got in fus' en dey come out w'ite; en dem w'at wuz de nex 'soopless, dey got in nex', en dey come out merlatters; en dey wuz sech a crowd un um dat dey mighty nigh use de water up, w'ich w'en dem yuthers come 'long, de morest dey could do wuz ter paddle about wid der foots en dabble in it wid der han's.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

En den, bless grashus! w'en de fokes seed it, dey make a break fer de pon ', en dem w'at wuz de soopless, dey got in fus' en dey come out w'ite; en dem w'at wuz de nex 'soopless, dey got in nex', en dey come out merlatters; en dey wuz sech a crowd un um dat dey mighty nigh use de water up, w'ich w'en dem yuthers come long, de morest dey could do wuz ter paddle about wid der foots en dabble in it wid der han's.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878