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Updated: June 4, 2025
"You all time talking 'bout you want more 'n one egg," said Jimmy. "You 'bout the stingiest Peter they is. Ain't you got no eggs? Get Miss Minerva to give you some of hers and I'll take 'em over and ask Miss Cecilia to dye 'em for you 'cause you ain't 'quainted with her yet." "Aunt Minerva ain't got none 'cep'in' what she put under a of hen fer to set this mornin':"
I don't know whether it's the toddy I've took thet calls my attention to it or not. She always seemed to see me in him but I never could. Far ez I can see, he never taken nothin' from me but his sect an' yo' name, son, of co'se. 'Cep'in' for me, you couldn't 'a' been no Jones 't least not in our branch. Put yo' hand on my forr'd, son, an' bresh it up'ards a few times, while I shet my eyes.
Her secon' man he got er mighty kinky, woolly head an' he mighty meek, so she got a little white lamb a-settin' on he grabe; an' de nex husban' he didn't have nothin' much fo' to disgueese him f'om de res' 'cep'in' he so slow an' she might nigh rack her brain off, twell she happen to think 'bout him bein' a Hardshell Baptis' an' so powerful slow, so she jest got a little tarrapim an' sot it on him.
Den Miss Sally, she cut me off er slishe wunner deze yer ongodly slishes, big ez yo' hat, an' I sot down on de steps an' wrop myse'f roun' de whole blessid chunk, 'cep'in' de rime." Uncle Remus paused and laid his hand upon his stomach as if feeling for something. "Well, old man, what then?" "Dat's w'at I'm a gittin' at, boss," said Uncle Remus, smiling a feeble smile.
But of co'se I swo'e that in a temper, an' temp'rate vows ain't never made 'cep'in' to be repented of." Several times during the last few minutes, while the deacon spoke, there had come to him across the garden from the kitchen the unmistakable odor of fried chicken.
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