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The Tragedy of Sacrificing Their Children's Childhood for Bush's War 2007

Wen Buh Squirle find out dat Buh Fox yent bin gwine pity um an tun um loose, but dat eh fix fuh kill um and eat um, Buh Squirle say to Buh Fox: "Enty you know say, nobody ought to eat eh bittle befo eh say grace ober um?"

Plantation life before emancipation, 1892

Buh Wolf yent duh listne ter him, but eh keep on duh pit de lick ter um.

Plantation life before emancipation, 1892

Buh Rabbit, so condemn, he yent hab one wud fuh talk.

Plantation life before emancipation, 1892

Ebry day when Buh Wolf yent duh watch um, eh slip to Buh Wolf spring, an eh fill him calabash long water, an cah um to eh house fuh cook long and fuh drink.

Plantation life before emancipation, 1892

I yent kin stan 'dis; one foot git heffy, da' heer 'pon me head lif' up. Da '

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

'E der git-a so heffy, me yent mos' know wut fer do.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

'E no leaf' e head, 'e no leaf' e tail; 'e yent leaf nuttin' 't all.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Rabbit run un-a run tel 'e yent kin run no mo'; 'e hide' neat 'leanin' tree.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

"Me yent yeddy tahlk 'bout dis," Daddy Jack explained.

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878