"See at" = see to, check; "see in" = look at

[Wilson Gray]

Thirty-ish black male meter-reader in Cincy:

"I was just going down into the basement to _see at_ the electric meters."

Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins in song, Angel-Child:

"I'm so happy to _see in_ her little old face"

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-Wilson
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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.
–Mark Twain

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