coun'y

Updated: May 4, 2025

Riley was counting up; in Oesterle's, where a hot discussion was going on as to whether Christopher Columbus was a Dutchman or a Dago, and in Miller's, where Tom Ball was telling Tony, who impassively wiped the perforated brass plate let into the top of the bar, that he, Tom Ball, "coul' lick em man ill Logan coun'y."

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I ash you as may wurl I ash you as may man of world, is that is that proper way address me? Me! Know who I am? I'm Tom Ball. 'S who I am. I kill lick em man ill Logan Coun'y. Ai' thasso? Hay? 'S aw ri. Mfi choose stay up there, aw thas sec aw thas second floor and rescue fel-cizzen's propprop'ty from devouring em from devouring emlement, thas my bizless. Ai' tham my bizless, Charley?

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