3.Scuse me, suh, I's lookin' for my husban'. I heerd you wuz a big man an' had 1ibbed heah a long time, an' I 'lowed you wouldn't min' efT'd come roun' an' ax you ef you'd eber heerd of
a merlatter man by de name er Sam Taylor 'quirin' roun' in de chu'ches errmongs' de people
fer his wife Liza Jane?"

who was this by

Ambrose Bierce
Mark Twain
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Cedric Yamanaka
Emily Dickinson
Sarah Orne Jewett