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  • "I'll be careful mumsey dear," answered the girl, as she ran down the steps to spring upon her mount.

    A Dixie School Girl

  • "And, oh that little Apache is some horse, mumsey."

    A Dixie School Girl

  • An 'mumsey don't have t' sew late, nights, any more. An 'when we came into the cute little house where we live -- there was the doll that says' mamma 'jest waitin' f 'me.

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "Oh! are y 'sick?" cried the child anxiously, touching Hermione's golden hair with loving fingers, "is it a headache like my mumsey gets?"

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Of course every one's daddy's got lots an 'heaps an' piles of money, so they never get behind with the rent an 'never have to set up all night stitching an' stitching like mumsey an 'Hermy have to sometimes.

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Well, when father died there wasn't anybody to take me, and some men were goin 'to put me in an orphan asylum; but mumsey says I took on so, and Jerry took on so, that they said they'd keep me.

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1914

  • I wanted to go to school and learn things-more things than just mumsey can teach me; and I thought of that.

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1914

  • "You see, mumsey works out-stairs and washings-so she gets some of her feed in them places, and Jerry picks his up where he can, except nights and mornings; he gets it with us then-if we've got any."

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1914

  • I didn't think, for a minute, but you was mumsey or

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1894

  • "You see, mumsey works out -- stairs and washings -- so she gets some of her feed in them places, and Jerry picks his up where he can, except nights and mornings; he gets it with us then -- if we've got any."

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1894

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