er-speakin

Updated: May 3, 2025

'Twarn't fancy shootin', like they hes on the stage yo' war er-speakin of, p'raps, but hit took a stiddy hand an' a clar eye ter do the trick. Gener'lly the spo't ended with the pick er the rifle shooters a-trying ter cut down ten weighted strings et a hundred paces, an' more times then once I done hit in as many shots."

Eliot H. (Eliot Harlow) Robinson - 'Smiles' : A Rose of the Cumberlands