Word: gits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern girl wrote to President Jefferson Davis: "I want you to let Jeems C. of Company Oneth, South Carolina Regiment, cum home and git married. Jeems is willin', I is willin', his mammy says she is willin', but Jeems Capn he ain't willin'. Now when we are all willin' 'cep'n Jeems Capn, I think you might let up and let Jeems come home. I'll make him go straight back when hes done got married and fight just as hard as ever." Davis countersigned the letter, "Let Jeems...
...pickin' bony at the tipple at the coal mine. And that's the easiest work they is. boys' work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin'. I'm not foolin' myself. But there's no use cryin' 'bout that now, is they...
...read "Here Comes Pewee." On the back was another reading "There Goes Pewee." When Shackle was perplexed that such a sweet girl should consort with such an offensive man of the world, his friend philosophized: "It's that auto at does it. They'll raunch anything to git to ride round in a auto." When Shackle took her away from Pewee, his troubles began. She teased him about his awkwardness when he kissed her, but when he asked her darkly how she knew so much, the blonde replied: "It just runs in our family...
...reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this way. I wasn't never in no city before today. A feller showed me a house and I talked to the folks and they give me a room with the softest, dangest bed I ever...
Captain: If you-all doan git off this heah vessel, Ah'll have mah seamen throw you ovah the side...