Ratin' us as so much power and reg'latin' us as if we was figures in a sum, will never do't.

They felt so sure of him that they began pro-ratin' our belongin's among one another.

"I tell ye, Doctor, if I'd 'a' had a sound arm, he'd 'a' gone after it; but I had to take it out in ratin' at him, and that night my mind was made up; I was bound to desart at the first land.