'Bout time you was doin' yours.

A corrupt form (perhaps only in these passages) of bouts-rimés.

"I don't know nothin' bout freedom.

The Captain's fingers are loaded with cameos, his tongue runs over with virtù, and that both may contribute to the improvement of their own country, they have introduced bouts-rimes as a new discovery.

Iffen you don't in the Primary cause you don't know nuf to pick out a man, you sho don't know nuthin er tall bout votin in the General lection.

Take me from now till dark to tell you everything I know bout slavery.

Our beaux, after being correctly frizz'd and powdered behind some door, compliment the belle just escaped from a toilet, performed amidst the apparatus of the kitchen; three or four beds are piled one upon another to make room for as many card-tables; and the wits of the prison, who are all the morning employed in writing doleful placets to obtain their liberty, in the evening celebrate the loss of it in bout-rimees and acrostics.

I heard em talking bout war times.

"If we chillun in them days had had the sense these got now, I could remember more bout things.

When I was small child they come in and tell bout people being sold.

I don't enquire no more bout politics.

'Bout ship, boys, and be smart!" "All hands!" bellowed the mate.

I never heard my husband say much bout voting.

One thing bout witches, dey gotta count everthing fore dey can git acrosst it.

So poor Sam had a good bed to sleep in that night, and next morn-ing the two boys went to see a-bout work for him.

My Marster didn' tell us' bout bein' free.

Dat chile is bout seben years ole an dat chile could see hants all in de house an he wouldn' go tuh baid till his gran'pappy come home an went tuh baid wid him.

Oh my God, I don't know bout dat.

The gar-ret was ver-y large; and their mam-ma could hear them as they tramped a-long, and could hear Tom's com-mand to right a-bout face when they had reached the farth-er end.

Well, one day afte' we had been mar'ied' bout fo' years, she ast[FN: asked] me how come I was so late comin' to supper, an' I said I found some work to do fer a white lady, an' she said, that's a lie,' an' right den I raised my han' an' let her have it right by de side of de head, an' she niver called me a liar ag'in.

Some folks jes' lucky bout gettin' ahead and stayin' ahead.

He had two boys bout grown, Jim and John.

'Bout hahf way to de mahket, I meets a couple o' stewards f'm a U.S. navy cutter anchored off de navy yard.

What would I know bout milkin.

je vous suis jusqu'au bout du monde!