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We was in at dinner and my old mars had been to town.
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De war had done lef' old mars' po' hisself.
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As his old mars hit him, he said.
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His old mars' name was Bill Carraway.
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That was when they wanted to see the girls they would have to get a pass from the old mars.
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As they jumped over the fence to go into the woods the old mars hit my daddy with a cat-o-nine tails.
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When I lef' old mars' says: 'Take dem mule colts, Mose, and, if it be so you gits able, pay fur 'em'.
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Old mars' bein' 'long ago dead, de debt descends to Mars' Pendleton.
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My mother said old Mars Lucius was good to his folks.
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An' old Mars Henry takin' him jus' like he was quality.
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We belonged to old Mars John Alvis.
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"Poor old Mars has got to step down now," said Amory.
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Old mars', your pa, gimme a pah of dem mule colts when I lef' fur to staht me goin' with.
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"Dear me," said the Fiscal, "is not Old Mars getting very bent and ancient?"
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Then she tole old Mars Henry the truth about how mistress Jane whip her and show him the marks of the whip.
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"Here he comes," said old Mars sourly, as Gilian turned round the Arches into the town.