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"Sheh! ain't I resk my life time an' time ag'in jess for my abstrac' rights to be a Republican niggeh? "Ef they'd on'y shoot me! But they won't. They won't evm hang me; they'll jess tie me to a tree and bu'n me wet me th'oo with coal-oil, tech a match O Lawd!"
"I was talkin' in the abstrac', an' not in the concrete. My teachin's educated them." "What a horse, specially a young horse, hears in the abstrac', he's liable to do in the Concord. You was handled late, I presoom." "Four, risin' five." "That's where the trouble began. Driv' by a woman, like ez not eh?" "Not fer long," said the yellow horse, with a snap of his teeth. "Spilled her?"
"I was talkin' in the abstrac'," said the yellow horse, in an altered voice. "Abstrac' be switched! Ez I've said, it's this yer blamed abstrac' business that makes the young uns cut up in the Concord; an' abstrac' or no abstrac', he crep' on an' on till he come to killin' plain an' straight killin' them as never done him no harm, jest beca'se they owned horses."
Ah." well, Miss Everdene, you are pardon my blunt way you are rather an injury to our race than other- wise. "How indeed?" she said, opening her eyes. "O, it is true enough. Why, Miss Everdene, it is in this manner that your good looks may do more. harm than good in the world." The sergeant looked down the mead in critical abstrac- ion.
"I was talkin' in the abstrac'," said the yellow horse, in an altered voice. "Abstrac' be switched! Ez I've said, it's this yer blamed abstrac' business that makes the young uns cut up in the Concord; an' abstrac' or no abstrac', he crep' on an' on till he come to killin' plain an' straight killin' them as never done him no harm, jest beca'se they owned horses."
Rat-it-all seemed to be slightly hurt in his feelings; "because I read it on the paper only this morning. 'Against War in the abstrac' much may be urged, it said. 'But 'oo will deny as it begets a sense o' Brotherhood if it does nothin' else? That was the expression."
"I was talkin' in the abstrac', an' not in the concrete. My teachin's educated them." "What a horse, specially a young horse, hears in the abstrac', he's liable to do in the Concord. You was handled late, I presoom." Four, risin' five." "That's where the trouble began. Driv' by a woman, like ez not eh?" "Not fer long," said the yellow horse, with a snap of his teeth. "Spilled her?"
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