Edgar Allan Poe,
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
(1840)
“ The truth of the houl matter is jist simple enough; for the very first day that I com'd from Connaught, and showd my swate little silf in the strait to the widdy, who was looking through the windy, it was a gone case althegither with the heart o' the purty Misthress Tracle. ”
