antedating (?) "Katy, bar the door" (1890)

[Mark Mandel]

Ah, Wellman! Who Fears the Devil is one of my all-time favorite books. IMHO,
though, he should've stuck to his shorts, so to speak; I've read his novels
once, and that's about that.

m a m

On 10/4/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> whatsoever, since I avoid eye-dialect BE as written by whites on GP
> and, WRT eye-dialect WE, Erskine Caldwell, MacKinlay Kantor, and Manly
> Wade Wellman are about as far as I care to go, though I enjoy hearing

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