Why, law, honey, aint I just been a-telling of you?

Sam, he kept a-talking and a-begging, and several men a-telling of him to shut up.

But surely I was only a-telling of you what ailed Ishmael, as he was off his feed.

There's my daughter been a-telling of me-

Somebody's been here afore me and been a-telling of you, I suppose; and a-telling of you wrong, too!