shoul'er

Updated: August 1, 2026

He sleep for heself, and he no sleep for 'e neighborhood! Dere! A man can't t'ink of ebery t'ing, in a minute. Here a ribbon long enough to hang heself take him, and den remem'er, Phyllis, dat you be 'e wife of a man who hab care on he shoul'er."

James Fenimore Cooper - The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas