The chap was very perlite, and explained to him the grate principle on which it worked, but Zenas didn't exactly see through it, and kept axing questions and botherin the feller till he got clean out of pashins.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
Yere's two ge'men axing for yer, Marse Le," said the old man.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Miss Cyn, honey, go fotch Miss Ann and tell her one ob dem Morleys is here axing us-all to buy his berries, and him in shreds and tatters!
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock