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Oh Susan, Susan, but I'm the proud woman this mornin'!" "Yes, of course, of course, I ain't wonderin' you be!" Susan drew a long sigh and fell to sweeping again. Mrs. McGuire, looking into Susan's face, came a step nearer. Her own face sobered. "An' me braggin' like this, when you folks-! I know you're thinkin' of that poor blind boy. An' it's just to-morrow that he comes, isn't it?"
"What they don't know won't hurt 'em any," declared Captain Cy. And Emily's answer to inquiring souls who would fain have delved into her past was to the effect that "Uncle Cyrus" didn't like to have her talk about herself. "I don't know's I'm ashamed of anything I've done so far," said the captain; "but I ain't braggin', either. Time enough to talk when I send her back to Betsy."
"They won't hang you, Moll, take my word for it." "Well, then," said she, bringing forward the hand she had been holding behind her back all the time; "here's the knife I done it with. It's his'n. He was braggin' last night about how many gullets he had slit with it, I mean men's gullets. I wuz jest sort o' hangin' onto it in case I but I don't believe I ever could a' done it.
I don't mean to say that word is 'all same, as the Indians say, as perfection; far from it, for we have some peculiarities common to us all. Cracking and boasting is one of these. Now braggin' comes as natural to me as scratchin' to a Scotchman. I am as fond of rubbing myself agin the statue of George the Third, as he is of se-sawing his shoulders on the mile-stones of the Duke of Argyle.
I have to look big and talk big the whole blessed time, and I am tired of it. It ain't nateral to me; and, besides braggin' and repudiatin' at the same time, is most as bad as cantin' and swearin'. It kinder chokes me. I thought it all though, and said it all to myself. 'And, sais I, 'take your time, Sam; you can't do it, no how, you can fix-it. You must wait your time, like other folks.
"Didn't take Abe long to git to braggin' an' drinkin' an' naggin' an' hectorin' everything, 'mos', 'cept fightin'. Nobody ever drawed Abe Shivers into a fight. I don't know as he was afeerd; looked like Abe was a-havin' sech a tarnation good time with his devilmint he jes didn't want to run no risk o' havin' hit stopped. An' sech devilmint! Hit ud take a coon's age, I reckon, to tell ye.
Well, jist do the civil now, and tell me when that little braggin' feller ever whipped us, will you? Just tell me the day of the year he was ever able to do it, since his mammy cut the apron string and let him run to seek his fortin'. Heavens and airth, we'd a chawed him right up!
And Mitch says, "I won't to-night anyway." Then the revivalist said, "Do you remember the rich man to whom the Lord said, 'Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee'?" Mitch says, "Yes, he was braggin' about his barns and that he had food laid up for many days. I'm not braggin' about anything; I'm not rich or grown up, and that part of the Bible don't apply to me."
An' I ain' er doubtin' dat Gineral Wade Hampton is a mighty fine man 'deed I knows he is but ain' she never heard ob Gineral Johnston? 'N' how erbout Gineral Stuart Yaas'm! 'n' the Black Troop, 'n' the Crenshaw Battery, 'n' the Purcell Battery. Yaas'm! 'n' the Howitzers, 'n' the Richmon' Blues Yaas'm! I sho' did mek her shet her mouf! Braggin' ter er Virginia woman ob South Callina!"
Is that braggin'? Not a bit; it's only the naked fact. To my mind there is no vally in a sketch if it ain't true to nature. We needn't go searching about for strange people or strange things; life is full of them. There is queerer things happening every day than an author can imagine for the life of him. It takes a great many odd people to make a world, that's a fact.
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