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And we were looking for her coming, and knew a week beforehand the very day she would arrive for had not Aunt 'Lizabeth sent special word by Uncle Tomps, who "had come to town to do his millin', and git the latest war news, not to fail to jest drop in and tell us that they was layin' off to send Mary Alice in next Saturd'y."
"W'y, them's easy as fallin' off a chunk! First-un's a man named Fox, and he kilt his wife and chopped her head off, and they was a man named Wright lived in that neighberhood and he was a-goin' home and it was Saturd'y night and he was a-comin' through the big woods and they was a storm and Wright he clumb a tree to git out of the rain, and while he was up there here come along a man with a dead woman and a pickax, and a spade.
"Talk about riddles," she said abruptly to us, one evening after supper, as we lingered watching her clearing away the table "talk about riddles, it takes David Mason Jeffries to tell riddles! Bet you don't know 'Riddle-cum, riddle-cum right! Where was I last Saturd'y night? The winds blow the boughs did shake I saw the hole a fox did make! "
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