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But I sez, "I dassent, I'm afraid it would open his woonds afresh, he knowed all the circumstances that had caused his sickness." But he wuz a Homeopath and believed in takin' the same kind of medicine backward and forward as it were, sunthin' as the poem runs: Tobacco hic when you're well will make you sick, Tobacco hic will make you well when you're sick.
But now she dassent leggo a minit to git her handkerchief, so she rode along weepin' silently, and a fearful sight for men or angels, but truly a cryin' monument of wifely devotion.
"I p'intedly dassent to leave her over one night and not a soul with her but Sammy, and he nothin' but a chile and not a neighbor within a mild of our place and sech a night! Pap and me we'll hitch up an' mak' 'as'e back to Huldy. We'll be here to the funeral a Sunday but I dassent to stay away from Huldy nair another hour now."
And bein' jest married, and thinkin' the world of her, Philander said he dassent leave home for fear she'd fall offen the barrel and break her neck. She had a board laid acrost two barrels to stand up on. And every day Philander would leave his outside work and come into the house, and set round and watch her he thought so much of her. I suppose he wanted to catch her if she fell.
Ain't he got a new pair of pants, a blouse, a navy blue tie and a new stickpin? And as for the programme, he warns her to watch out "fur us kids because we're going to be fixed up for something, but I dassent tell because it's a surprise the teachers got up."
When he caught the measles from Sairy Baxter's baby Lizzie sot up day 'nd night till he wuz well, holdin' his hands 'nd singin' songs to him, 'nd cryin' herse'f almost to death because she dassent give him cold water to drink when he called f'r it.
An' I thought the whole r-r-r-roof was goin'. An' then I w-w-went to sleep a s-s-s-sp-ell. When I woke up, 'twas so p-p-pit-chy dark I dassent stay no l-l-longer." With which he coolly sliced himself a portion of the ham which his grandmother had promptly produced.
I hope it so much I dassent hardly think and just have to keep talking to stop it. If I had hold that Molly Breckenridge I'd shake her well! The dear flighty little thing! To go addin' another scare to a big enough one before, and now about that Leslie. He's a real nice boy Leslie is if you let him do exactly what he wants and don't try to make him different. His ma just sets all her store by him.
He produced a bit of coarse wrapping-paper upon which was this message in rough capital letters: TWO DAGOES SHOT HIM DASSENT SAY NO MORE FROM A FRIEND IN CINCINNATI. Average Jones examined the wrapper. It was postmarked Cincinnati. He next smoothed out the creased silk and studied minutely the blotches, which were heaviest about the left breast and shoulder.
Then, looking around at her: "Wa'll, the ginrall, he's some busy." "Please say that his messenger is here." "Orders is formuel, ma'am. I dassent " She pronounced a word under her breath. "Hey?" She nodded. "Tain't her?" demanded the corporal incredulously. She nodded again. The corporal's lantern and jaw dropped in unison. "Speak low," she said, smiling.
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