Spoken by Judge Mathis:

[Wilson Gray]

"Saint Louis Nelly? I know that she didn't steal nothing from _Nelly house_!"

I know that this phenomenon, the loss of possessive -'s, is well
known, but I'm always amused by how high up in the social and
educational chain it goes.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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