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In "Interview with President Lincoln," Charles Farrar Browne uses a different spelling for some common words to indicate the narrator's accent and local dialect. Write the correct spellings of the underlined words in this excerpt.

One patrit from a small town in Michygan went up on top the house, got into the chimney and slid into the parler where Old Abe was endeverin to keep the hungry pack of orfice-seekers from chawin him up alive without benefit of clergy.

patrit =

Michygan =

parler =

endeverin =

chawin =

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User Joselito
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Patriot
Michigan
Parlor
Endeavoring
And I don't know the last one
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User Matt Krause
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Patrit = patriot

Michygan = michigan

parler = parlour

endeverin = endeavouring

chawin = chain
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