(Ain’t = am not, are not, is not, is colloquial.)
Pronouns.
The abbreviated form ’em (for them, Middle-Engl. hem) is very common in Jerome, as in ordinary easy conversation among all classes.
The ordinary confusion of I and me appears in a few instances.
Just as you or me would swear at the missus. (T. T. T. 128. 17.)
In another twenty minutes me and young M. were in the carriage. (T. T. T. 195. 7.)
Me instead of myself is archaic, but occurs in vulgar language also.
It is no use fixing me down to any quiet calling. (T. T. T. 172. 12.)
Uncultivated young man.