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Updated: May 22, 2025
She promised Martha a pa'tridge-breasted aloe, and they say you've got to plant it in pewter sand, and only water it once't a month, and how it can grow I can't see; but never mind, all the same s'pose we say Friday afternoon about three o'clock, goin' through the big woods between the Square and Witherses, and you might have a gun, for the squirls is plenty, and so accidental-like, if anybody should come along"
But, bo" and here the Spider laid an impressive hand on Ravenslee's arm "if you should happen t' see Bud, well, don't stop to look twice but beat it let it be th' door or winder for yours only beat it!" "Oh, why?" "Well, I know Bud's got it in fer you; I heard him say oh, well, if his gun should go off accidental-like, this place ain't exactly Broadway or Fifth Av'noo, bo see?"
What with the dreadful state of morals nowadays and them stories in the circulating libraries, innocent girls don't know into what society they might be obliged to take situations. Never saw missus' marriage certificate, though I have quite accidental-like looked in her desk when open, and would have seen it. Do not know of any lovers missus might have had.
I hung around the post-office all day, knowing just as sure as shootin' that he'd write to the nigger, wherever he was. Sure enough, about two o'clock up comes the darky that had admitted me the day before, bringing a couple of letters. "He stuck 'em in his pocket while he hitched his horse to the rack. I bumped into him accidental-like. 'Nough said.
The girl went straight on, pouring out her sentences with a driven, desperate eagerness. "I didn't mean to do it, though God knows I didn't mean to do it! He treated me mighty sorry it was lowdown and mean all the way through, the way he done me but I didn't mean him no real harm. I was only aimin' to skeer him into doin' the right thing by me. It was accidental-like it really was, mister!
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