“Which a man like you that’s got no wife.”
“Howbeever, as your wife is Nancy Lary, which that she’s the own dear sister o’ my wife.”
“And which I haven’t a single jubous doubt that, soon as the breath got out o’ her body, she went to mansion in the sky same as a bow-’n’-arrer, or even a rifle-bullet.”
Another authority on this point is the well-known writer of stories, Alfred Henry Lewis, a native of Arkansas. In his tales we find these expressions:—
“Which his baptismal name is Lafe.”
“Which if these is your manners.”
“Which, undoubted, the barkeeps is the hardest-worked folks in camp.”
“Which it is some late for night before last, but it’s jest the shank of the evening for to-night.”
No writer ever knew Virginia better than did the late George W. Bagby, and he attributes the cockney “which” to a backwoodsman from Charlotte County in that State. “And what is this part of the country called? Has it any particular name?”
“To be sho. Right here is Brilses, which it is a presink; but this here ridge ar’ called ‘Verjunce Ridge.’”