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Updated: May 1, 2025
Well, for a time he were all right, a-fixin' up his house, a-buildin' new barns and hen-coops and fences and the like, and I've heerd tell that the house where he kep' his pigs were better than any dwellin'-house in that region, and the whole place were the wonder of the country roundabout; but arter he had fixed his house all up like a ship, with little staterooms all through the upper part of it, and had got everythin' inside and out in shipshape order, and there weren't nothin' else he could think of for to do, he gits terribly homesick and discontented, and times when he'd come to the city for to collect his sheer of the profits of ships as he had a interest in, he'd sit for hours on the wharf a-watchin' the vessels on the river, and it were like drawin' teeth for to git him to leave and go up to his home.
For a brief interval the standing man withheld his answer, but that was only for the sake of appearances. Then he nodded his head. "I gives ye my hand on hit. I sw'ars." Something like a grunt of bitter laughter came from the bed. "Thet hain't enough ... fotch me a Bible." "I don't know whar hit's at." "I reckon they've got one in a godly dwellin'-house like this.
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