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I proceeded: "In England you encourage an orator by exclaiming, 'H'yaah! h'yaah! We pronounce it heer in some sections, 'h'yer' in others, and so on; but our whites do not say 'h'yaah, pronouncing the a's like the a in ah. I have heard English ladies say 'don't you' making two separate and distinct words of it; your Mr. Burnand has satirized it. But we always say 'dontchu. This is much better.
I hain't growed ez you hev. I hain't no mo' man dan I was den not so much, in fac'. I don't keer now no mo' 'bout what's a-gwine ter be. I'se an' ole man, 'Liab an' ole man, of I is young." That night he told his story to a breathless auditory. "Yes, Bre'er 'Liab, dar's a heap o' t'ings happened sence dat ar mornin' I lef' you h'yer wid Marse Hesden.
I tuk dat inter de town one Saturday in de ebenin', an' went roun' h'yer an' dar, a-tryin' ter git de biggest price 'mong de buyers dat I could. "It happened dat I done forgot al 'bout it's comin' on late, an' jest a little atter sun-down, I struck on a man dat offered me 'bout a cent a poun' more'n ennybody else hed done, an' I traded wid him.
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