"W'y, I hyeah you say dat you couldn'tgit a PAIH of sheahs thoo a niggah's naps.
"The Sport of the Gods"
Paul Laurence Dunbar
But I was just tellin' this boy about the day in the Wilderness his grandfathah Hynds took a Yankee bullet out of my leg with a PAIH of silvah scissahs and bandaged it with the tail of his shirt.
"A Woman Named Smith"
Marie Conway Oemler