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That is, he was cranky and ha'd to get next to for nearly ever'body, and sometimes he was pretty rough with me. But I handled him fairly well and always got business out of him, although sometimes I had to use a little jiu jitsu to do it. "Several seasons ago haven't you heard this story, boys? I was on my way up to his town, Deadwood.
Don't you know that ever'body hates school-teachers when they're growed up? Jerusalem, how I still hate old Rachel Kidwell! An' yet she's bin dead nigh onto thirty years. She was my first teacher. You wasn't born to be hated by all the boys in the district. I don't see what put the idee of work inter your head You got 'bout eight thousand dollars in the bank an' "
"Hit hain't nuthin' ter what I'm goin' ter larn," he declared. "But moh'n what I've told ye, even, I larned from her readin'. Yeou see, Miss Jane, she uster read ter ever'body who'd come, 'n' hit got so arter 'while 'specially Sundays that folks 'd walk or ride ter our place from as fur as twenty mile ter listen, jest like they war comin' ter a singin', till the clarin' 'd be plumb full.
"Would you ast ever'body to bring a cheer, or would you have 'em already here?" asked Mrs. Wiggs. "Oh, le' 's bring 'em ourselves!" insisted Asia, who had been to a church social. So a raid was made on the neighborhood, and every available chair borrowed and ranged against the parlor wall. By noon the boys reported most of the tickets sold, and Mrs.
Your Sky Island ain't very big, so when we couldn't stay in the Blue Country, where ever'body hated us, or in the Fog Bank, which ain't healthy an' is too wet for humans to live in for long, we nat'rally were forced to enter the Pink Country, where we expected to find nice people." "We ARE nice," said Tourmaline, "but it is our country, not yours, and we have no place here for strangers.
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