"Soger" Quotes from Famous Books
... git hold on 't, he'd take it, no doubt; But 't ain't jes' the takin', though 't hez a good look, We mus' git sunthin' out on it arter it's took, An' we need now more 'n ever, with sorrer I own, Thet some one another should let us a loan, Sence a soger wun't fight, on'y jes' while he draws his Pay down on the nail, for the best of all causes, 'Thout askin' to know wut the quarrel's about,— An' once come to thet, why, our game is played out. It's ez true ez though I shouldn't never hev said it Thet a hitch hez took place in our system ... — Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various |