🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

De noung King tun sich er smart answer, wid de help er eh farruh, dat de ole King couldnt mek out wuh time fuh gone fuh de fat hog; an so eh gib up, an de noung King, befo long, come an tun um out an tek eh office.

Who acts: De, King tun sich, time fuh · What happens: noung, help, go, gib up, come out · To what, where: er, fuh de fat hog, de noung, tun um

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