wouldn't-a

Updated: May 13, 2025

I wouldn't-a believed ten dollars a week would-a turned the trick; but it's sure done it." "Perhaps," suggested his acquaintance, "the girls are cheerful and competent because they aren't afraid of poverty. Maybe they are motived by hope of getting on in the world and not motived by the terror of slipping down. Does that not make them stand by the shop instead of working against it?

William Allen White - The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me