[Ads-l] "gumption, jasm" 1892, interdating jasm

[Stephen Goranson]

The idee o' Marion [/p. 25] Jameson prayin' up tew somewhar, an' gumption, jasm, er sunthin else comin' daoun an' narvin' the kunnel up tew makin' the fellers fork over the actooal dollars an' cents tew the tewn o' thousands an' thousands!


Culminations, a novel. by Aella Greene (Springfield, Mass., 1892) 24-25.


https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=jasm&id=wu.89098026909&view=1up&seq=7


Stephen Goranson

http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/


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