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You need'nt be a mind reader for this, a few good questions to understand your guest (customer) would serve a great deal.
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When the last strains of music had spent its force and a general interchange of silly speeches had been made, the young man once more rose to go, but a youth with broad Scotch accent seized him by the arm exclaiming: "Don't go yet, Tracy dear; for if ye do, ye need'nt come back here."
Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour
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"Ther'll nubby be freetened o 'thee lad, tha need'nt think," shoo says,
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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How long we stood thus, I know not; the last sun-rays were dying as Aunt Hildy said: "We must wait no longer; Jane and Aunt Peg, you'll help me, the rest of you need'nt stay;" and so we left our beautiful dead, still in the hands of her friends.
The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871
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I reckon you dont have any newspapers to read in camp though I expect you hear news enough but it may be like it is here the one half need'nt be believed and the other half is no better We are all well at present and getting along as well as can be expected and I believe the boys folks are all well, as far as I know, that went from about here.
Augusta County: Mary A. Smiley to Thomas M. Smiley, May 7, 1861 Mary A. Smiley 1861
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"In one point of view she may come; her husband was living then," continued Mrs. Jane Peabody, "she has become a rich woman since, and may honor us with a visit -- to show us how great a person she has got to be -- let her come -- it need'nt trouble thee, nor me, I'm sure."
Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family Cornelius Mathews 1853
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But I need'nt tell you of what's needful in works of war.
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He need'nt think I'm gwine to make puddins out o 'one egg, and lighten my muffins with snow, like these ere Yankees,' kase I aint gwine to do it for nobody.
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But 'old Peggy 'need'nt fear comparison with any body.
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Asa There goes another of them, oh! you need'nt look for them, you can't find 'em when you want 'em.
Our American Cousin Tom Taylor 1848
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