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him pronoun Used rather than himself as the indirect object of a verb (the so-called "personal dative"). [DARE labels this usage "chiefly South, South Midland" in the U.S.]

1863 Shipman CW Letters (May 27) I expect poke will go down there to get him one. 1915 Hall Claib Jones 24 Jim Brown had worked him out a fine wether sheep. 1939 Hall Coll He put him a turnip hull on the end of his rifle gun so that he could see the darkness of the bear ... He wouldn’t eat but two messes out of a big’un and then kill him another’n. 1955 Ritchie Singing Family 49 That doctor like to had him a fit. He said, “Balis, who in God’s green yearth done that to your arm?” 1971 AOHP/ALC-32 He had him a farm over in Letcher County or something. 1998 Dante OHP-51 He got him a little golf cart over at Clintwood to go to town, and the state police stopped him and gave him a ticket.