turkles

And yet it had once been a paying venture, for the main road was only a few hundred yards away from this lonely, forbidding-looking pond, where the frogs grew so large and the red-marked "turkles," as Ty Collins called them, were so saucy.

Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas

Snaps awn teh 50′sBC an teh dukky taype, passez own floofy blankies wif liddle turkles awn em.

I iz nu heer - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Sometimes Nancy hunts roots in the marshes, or picks up a few turkles that sells for a dollar or two each.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

Dey used to put back all de little fishes and de turkles and tarrepins.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

For fresh meat, outside of killin 'a shoat, a lamb, or a kid now and den, slaves was' lowed to go huntin 'a right smart and dey fotch in a good many turkles (turtles),' possums, rabbits, and fish.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

My Joe used tuh make a tidy lot of money trappin 'animals in the swamp for ther skins, huntin' turkles like them terrapin they pay sech a big price fur, an 'actin' as guide fur the shooters as come down along the coast after ducks and snipe and bay birds.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

We were lookin 'at a man with turkles you wind up, an' when we stopped lookin 'they weren't there -- not anywhere.

Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell

"I've got me a dog now to keep off turkles from me and you."

The Heart's Kingdom Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

-- did they drive in two flies? and mud-turkles? and bumble-bees? and muskeeters?

Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

People catch turkles and shoot at parrots and things, but they can see what they're doing. "

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947