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An' no Dook o' Duncy 'ull pull ye out! This 'ere old friend o' mine don't unnerstand ye wi' yer fustian an' yer galligaskins. 'E's kinder eddicated got a bit o' larnin' as I 'aves myself." "Eddicated!" echoed Bill. "Eddication's a fine thing, aint it, if it brings an old gaffer like 'im to trampin' the road! Seems to me the more people's eddicated the less they's able to make a livin'."
"Wall, yes; the eddication's stayed by me. I ruther guess 'twas the gumption that got knocked out. That was at Antietam." "Didn't know you was in the war," Enoch exclaimed, with a visible accession of respect. "Was you hit?" "Wall, yes; in the head. I wa' n't much more 'n a youngster, and when they let me loose the doctors said I was good 's new; 'n I ruther guess I was, all except the gumption.
I knowed it couldn't 'elp to be one or t'other; you just tell your master that my name is Robert, better known as Bobby, Frog. But I've lots of aliases, if that name don't please 'im. Good-bye, Thomas. Farewell, and if for ever, then you know the rest o' the quotation, if your eddication's not bin neglected, w'ich is probable it was. Oh! by the way. This 'assik is the gift of the 'ouse-maid?
"Wal, yis, 'tis hard sleddin' for the deacon drefful hard sleddin. Wal, naow, s'pose you're disapp'inted shouldn't wonder jes' so. Eddication's a good thing, but 'taint the only thing naow; folks larns a sight rubbin' round the world and then they make money.
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