Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shore war tickled ta find out this war leep yar. i yam awful bashful an i war shore hatin ter ax a boy to be a gittin hitched with me this yar, an being as how im ateen which means Ise gittin purty old which means Id best git me a man this year cause itle be fore more yars for i git a chance agin...
...suffered also under a strong, sadistic elder brother, Harvey. Among other misfortunes he: fell into a well, was buried under a gravel slide, got one foot frozen, had the end of his thumb sliced by Harvey (deliberate torture), got his jaw knocked half in two by an ax (Harvey again, an accident, no apology). Occasionally a cowboy stopped for a few days - most of them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their legs. Brother Jim, mindful of their virtue, would stoop...
...explained to the satisfaction of the Brooklyn district attorney's office were these facts: Engelberg appeared to have been asleep when he was attacked, and by the horrible look of his face, the "something on the dresser" which Haas-Kehler said he grasped must have been an ax...