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But he and the rest of the niggers was so DERNED anxious to be thought agriculturous and servitudinous that the whites smelt a rat, and wished he would go, fur they didn't want to chase him without they had to. Jest when we was getting along fine one of them prominent citizens asts the doctor was we there figgering on buying some land? "No," says the doctor, "we wasn't."
"I HAVE seen her since," says Colonel Tom, "and that is one thing that makes me say your story needs further explanation." "But where when did you see her?" asts the doctor, mighty excited. "I am coming to that. I went back home again. And in July of the next year I heard from her." "Heard from her?" "By letter. She was in Galesburg, Illinois, if you know where that is. She was living there alone.
Martha said jest in the minute she had left her alone on the porch was when Miss Hampton must of seen the ghost. Martha brung her to, and she was looking puzzled and wild-like both to oncet. Martha asts her what is the matter. "Nothing," she says, rubbing her fingers over her forehead in a helpless kind of way, "nothing." "You look like you had seen a ghost," Martha tells her.
"Ah yo' de gennleman known ter dis hyah sinful genehation by de style an' de entitlemint o' Docto' Hahtley Kirby?" he asts the doctor very ceremonious and grand. The doctor give him a look that wasn't very encouraging, but he nodded to him. "Will yo' dismiss yo' sehvant in ordeh dat we kin hol' convehse an' communion in de midst er privacy?"
When I seen she had it figgered out I was in a quest fur some high-mucky-muck fur a dad, I didn't tell her no different. I didn't take much stock in them earls and nights myself. So fur as I could see they was all furriners of one kind or another. But that thing of being into a quest kind of interested me, too. "How would I know him if I was to run acrost him?" I asts her.
"Yes," I says, "I been laying here fur quite a spell, and quite natcheral I listened to you, as any one else would of done. And mebby I can get that team and wagon of yourn without it costing you a cent." Well, they didn't know what to say. They asts me how, but I says to leave it all to me.
In Illinoise a Yankee is some one from the East, but down South he is anybody from north of the Ohio, and though that there war was fought forty years ago some of them fellers down there don't know damn and Yankee is two words yet. But shucks! they don't mean no harm by it! So I tells him I am a damn Yankee and asts him agin if I can do anything fur him.
It was done so sudden and quiet it was half a minute before I seen it wasn't shadders but about thirty men had gathered all about us on every side. They had guns. "Who are you? What d'ye want?" asts the old man, startled, as three or four took care of the mule's head very quick and quiet.
When they found out Hank had come home with licker in him and done it himself, they was all excited, and they all crowds around and asts me how, except two as is holding onto Elmira's hands which sets moaning in a chair. And they all asts me questions as to what I seen him do, which if they hadn't I wouldn't have told em the lies I did. But they egged me on to it.
Curtis that if she has to be washed, I'll wash her. I don't want no dago splashin' water all over the barn floor an' drawin' pay fer doin' it. Then's when I hears about the new car. Mr. Loeb comes out an' asts me if I ever drove a Packard twin-six. I says no I ain't, an' he says it's too bad. He asts the dago if he's ever drove one and the dago lies like thunder.
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