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"Marse Bob died right here in dis here house. He died a po' man. If my old mistis had a-been here she wouldn' a-let' em treat him like dey done. If I'd a-been here I wouldn' a-let' em done like dat, neither. "I been a-livin' by myse'f since my wife died. My son, Oscar, lives on de lan' an' rents it from me. "I don't know what's gwine a-happen to de young folks now-a-days.
"'Stranger, goes on Texas, turnin' to the Signal party, an' his hand drops on his gun, an' he breathes loud like a buffalo; 'nothin' but blood is goin' to do me now. If I was troo to myse'f at this moment, I'd take a knife an' shorely split you like a mackerel. But I restrains myse'f; also I don't notice no weepon onto you.
"My baby," she murmured; then lifted her glance with the question: "An' how come ye to have him? Did she did that womern " "No, no. 'Twas this-a-way," Pap interrupted her. "When I came back from Big Turkey Track, I went down through Hepzibah I couldn't git this chap's eyes ner his little hands out o' my head; I found myse'f a-studyin' on 'em the hull enjurin' time. She was dead when I got thar.
De jailah was too po'ly to enjoy wu'kkin' vehy hahd, so I tuk de keys, an' when dey didn't need me at nights, ovah at his house, I allus locked myse'f in reg'lar every night, so's to feel I wuz doin' right, you know. In de mawnin', right early, I made breakfast foh dem, an' fix dem up like.
When time hangs heavy, I entertains myse'f with a dooel between Augustus Augustus bein' the horned toad's name , an' a empty sardine box for which he entertains resentments. ""Lay for him, Augustus!" I'd say, at the same instant battin' him in the nose with the box. "'Of course, Augustus ain't got savey enough to realize I does it.
He took me two or three little steps, an' I thought I was back to earth, an' I ask Aunt Milla for a drink as I was so thirsty. And she said de bucket of water was on de bench, an' my little cup by it. "When I cum to myse'f I was standin' by de bucket drinkin' out o' my cup.
As I was sayin', when he's through renderin' said Locksley Hall, he comes buttin' into a talk with me where I'm camped in a corner all cosy as a toad onder a cabbage leaf, reecoverin' myse'f with licker from them recitals of his, an' he says to me, this parson party does: "'Which it's shorely a set-back America has no poets, says he.
'I ain't absolootly shore, says Dave Tutt, 'bein' some shy of practice with infants myse'f, but jedgin' by his lookin' smooth an' silky, I offers fifty dollars even he ain't weaned none yet. "'I won't bet none on his bein' weaned complete; says Jack, 'but I'll hang up fifty he drinks outen a bottle as easy as Old Monte!
"Speakin' about who Colonel Sterett is, he onfolds his pedigree in full one evenin' when we're all sort o' self-herded in the New York Store. Which his story is a proud one, an' I'm a jedge because comin as I do from Tennessee myse'f, nacherally I saveys all about Kaintucky. Thar's three grades of folks in Kaintucky, the same bein' contingent entire on whereabouts them folks is camped.
"But this yere Mexican, after he stampedes 'em, huddles what he can together as I says mebby it's a dozen an' p'ints off into the hills. "Of course it ain't no time after the sun shows the tracks when Enright, Jack Moore, an' myse'f is on the trail. Tutt an' Dan Boggs wants in on the play, but we can't spar' so many from the round-up. "It's one of the stolen ponies tips this Greaser's hand.
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