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"Co'rse," the stiller explained, as though an explanation were needed, "Parson Rasba ain' used to hit; he could carry more, an' hit'll take him longer to get lit up. But, law me, when hit begins to act! That's three yeah old, boys, mild, but no mewl yo' eveh saw has the kick that's got, apple an' berry cider, stilled down from the ferment!" Virtue had not been rewarded.
"Of co'rse!" he said, half aloud, "of co'rse!" "Co'rse what?" the man demanded, querulously. "Co'rse she shot," Rasba answered, tartly. "Sometimes a lady jes' naturaly has to shoot, fearin' of men." Rasba landed the two boats in at the foot of a sandbar, and made them fast to old stakes driven into the top of the low reef.
"I cyard for him, and he thanked me kindly; he said a woman had shot him when he was trying to be friendly; a pretty woman, young and alone. Co'rse, I washed his wound and I linimented it, and I cut the bullet out of his back; law me, but that man swore! Come night, an' he heard say I was a parson, he apologized because he cursed, and this mo'nin' he'd done lit out, yas, suh! Neveh no good-bye.
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