A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain Chapter 15 Page 16

strike the gong-bell two minutes before train leaves — passengers for the Shore-line please take seats in the rear k’yar, this k’yar don’t go no furder — ahh -pls, aw -rnjz, b'nan ners, s-a-n-d’ches, p — op-corn!”

— ”and waxed past noon and drew toward evensong.

Sir Gawaine’s strength feebled and waxed passing faint, that unnethes he might dure any longer, and Sir Marhaus was then bigger and bigger — ”

“Which strained his armor, of course; and yet little would one of these people mind a small thing like that.”

— ”and so, Sir Knight, said Sir Marhaus, I have well felt that ye are a passing good knight, and a marvelous