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I been borned a long time goin' on to seventy year now, an' I seen all sorts of contraptions like reapers an' binders, ridin' plows, typewritin'-machines, telephones, phonygraphs, flyin'-machines, submarines an' all such, but b'jinks, I ain't a-believin' that nobody kin hear jes' common talk through the air without no wires. An' hundreds o' miles! 'Tain't natch'all an' 'taint possible now, is it?"
Now, ordinarly, I'd complained, but, under the circumstances, it didn't appear to me to be the decent thing to do, so I motioned to Jim, and he slid me a pack with the same sort of backs. "After that you never in all your borned days see such hands on a poker table. Why, a king-full wasn't worth raisin' back on.
Brayton; he buyed some lan' and sole it to some cullud folks, an' his ole frien's got so mad wid him dat dey wouldn't speak ter him, an' he war borned down yere. I tole ole Miss Anderson's daughter dat we wanted ter git some homes ob our ownselbs. She sez, 'Den you won't want ter work for us? Jis' de same as ef we could eat an' drink our houses.
I wasn't goin' to take it that way, but I never minded takin' it like like company." Nance pondered the matter for a while silently; then she asked suddenly: "Say, Dan, if folks are borned poor white trash, they don't have to go on bein' it, do they?" The three chief diversions in Calvary Alley, aside from fights, were funerals, arrests, and evictions.
"I 'uz just wonderin'," he pursued, picking his teeth meditatively with a pen-knife, "'ow they feeds you in them as-ylums. 'Avin' never been inside one, myself, it's on'y natural I'd be cur'us.... There was one of them institootions near where I was borned Birming'am, that is. I used to see the loonies playin' in the grounds.
"I'm goin' back home, though." Polly gazed at Buck in surprise. Here was a new view of the man; one she had never considered. It was strange to hear this outlaw and bad man talk of a home. The repetition of the word "home" by Polly, led him to continue: "Yep. Up to the Strip, where I was borned at. This yere climate's a leetle too dry to suit me.
"Well, ez I was a-sayin', Brothah Stone hed been preachin' fur us onct a month at Cane Redge meetin'-house 'bout a year when our youngest wuz borned; an' nothin' would do Mason but he must be called fur the preachah. It's a well-soundin' name, I think myse'f.
"He's got a good many things and improvements around here that you folks that's lived here for seventy years and more never seen before, I reckon." "He sure is a great feller for steppin' out his own way!" marveled Sol. "I never seen such a change in a place inside of a year as Joe's made in this one never in my mortal borned days.
The judge checked the hilarity of the audience; the prosecutor maintained his dignity by main force, and the bailiff succeeded in keeping the old lady in her place, although she admonished him: "Pshaw, chile, you needn't fool wid me, I nussed dat boy's mammy when she borned him." It was too much for the young attorney, and he would have been less a man if it had not been.
Poor pa! only think, little girl, a stick of timber fell on him, and lamed him for life!" "Yes," said Bennie, "the lower part of him is as limber as a rag." "She don't sense a word you say," remarked Mrs. Brooks, shaking up a pillow, "See what we can get out of her. What's your name, dear?" "Katie Clifford." "Where do you live?" "I have been borned in Nindiana." Fly spoke with some pride.
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