'cept

But the wives don’t travel with the band ‘cept on special occasions.

I say there ain't one o' them that cares a copper cent for one of us, 'cept just for what he can git outen us.

They're all well now, 'cept Jake, and he'll come out all right, but we had a close call.

We don't propose to run him in yer, cept we're took, or yer unaccommodatin' to the boys.

Nuthin', by ——, 'cept she dident no nuthin' 'bout bisniss, an' leff all uv sech things ter har loryer.

Humin natur is the same all over the world, cept in Nu England, and thar its akordin tu sarcumstances.