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Updated: June 27, 2025
Well, I did have an offer for it from a feller that wanted to open a boa'din'-house there and get the advantage of Jeff's improvements, and I couldn't seem to make up my mind till I'd looked the ground over. Fust off, you know, I thought I'd sell to the other feller, because I could see in a minute what a thorn it 'd be in Jeff's flesh. But, dumn it all!
At last, the Yankee cast a damper on his enthusiasm by exclaiming, in a pet, "Oh! dumn your singing! keep quiet, and pull away!" This we now did, in the most uninteresting silence; until, with a jerk that made every elbow hum, the root dragged out; and most inelegantly, we all landed upon the ground.
There ain't any man enjoys a sightly bit of nature a smooth piece of interval with half a dozen good-sized wine-glass elms in it more than I do. But I ain't a-going to stand up for every big ugly rock I come across, as if we were all a set of dumn Druids. I say the landscape was made for man, and not man for the landscape."
The tough obstacle convulsed the surface with throes and spasms; but stuck fast, notwithstanding. "Dumn it!" cried Zeke, "we'll have to get a rope; run to the house, Shorty, and fetch one." The end of this being attached, we took plenty of room, and strained away once more. "Give us a song, Shorty," said the doctor; who was rather sociable, on a short acquaintance.
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