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• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1978
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75056

they pro "Webuck-tam dog-onk, ouk-clear out, I tell you! Susan! What be doon? Where's the dish-cloth? No, that beant he, blockhead. Mercy! who ever saw the flies and nippers so bad as they! You dar, shet that door--shet it. Hist! abide still, child- knock off, I tell ye, or I'll fix that bawling. Peruik! now who's had finger in that pot? Oh my!" Etching laid siege one morning with his photo- graphie apparatus, and captured the whole fam- ily. They were properly grouped before the house, and the necessity of remaining perfectly quiet was strictly enjoined; but the mosquitoes bit so savagely that few would have dared the experiment of sitting long enough for the portrait. But the paternal voice imperiously reiterated the artist's caution: "Abide still, now. Move not a finger. Never mind they-let 'em bite." Then he chose his own attitude, and he and PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN APR 1978 JH APR 1978 Used Sup Used Sup Not used An arrow is shown pointing towards the part of the text where "they" is used.