o'tellin

Updated: September 11, 2025

I'm sure it's not for want o'tellin' ye, but ye was never great in the way ov memry or spellin'. Pr'aps it's as well. Ye'd ha' bin too perfect, an' that's not desirable by no means, 'my darlin' Jo, ay, them's the words. It's that as sets my 'art a b'ilin' over like."

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader : A Tale of the Pacific