Do you know them ?" He thought a moment, then answered, "'Do not.'" She nodded her head, and said, "And you use 'don't' when you mean 'does not.'" He was puzzled over this, and did not get it so quickly.
"Give me an illustration," he asked.
"Well--" She puckered her brows and pursed up her mouth as she thought, while he looked on and decided that her expression was most adorable.
"'It don't do to be hasty.' Change 'don't' to 'do not,' and it reads, 'It do not do to be hasty,' which is perfectly absurd." He turned it over in his mind and considered.
"Doesn't it jar on your ear ?" she suggested.
"Can't say that it does," he replied judicially.
"Why didn't you say, 'Can't say that it do' ?" she queried.
"That sounds wrong," he said slowly.

"As for the other I can't make up my mind.

I guess my ear ain't had the trainin' yours has." "There is no such word as 'ain't,'" she said, prettily emphatic.
Martin flushed again.
"And you say 'ben' for 'been,'" she continued; "'come' for 'came'; and the way you chop your endings is something dreadful." "How do you mean ?" He leaned forward, feeling that he ought to get down on his knees before so marvellous a mind.

"How do I chop ?" "You don't complete the endings.

'A-n-d' spells 'and.' You pronounce it 'an'.' 'I-n-g' spells 'ing.' Sometimes you pronounce it 'ing' and sometimes you leave off the 'g.' And then you slur by dropping initial letters and diphthongs.