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There was a silence, and then: "Me don't know," observed Jackrabbit thoughtfully. A moment later, however, he added: "Me marry you how much me get give fatha huh?" Wowkle raised her narrowing eyes to his and told him with absolute indifference: "Huh me don't know." Jackrabbit's face darkened. He pondered for a long time. "Me don't know " suddenly he began and then stopped.
The family party passes through the cemetery, the women bearing baskets of bread and bottles of water, the men turning the head to the right and to the left and reciting the fatha in propitiation of the spirits. The party enters the offering inclosure of the grave of their relative.
"Why, there wa'n't no hurry, as long as she's he'a," he said, in prompt enjoyment of the joke, and he and Clementina sparely kissed each other. "Why, fatha!" she said. "I didn't expect you to come to New Yo'k to meet me." "Well, I didn't ha'dly expect it myself; but I'd neva been to Yo'k, and I thought I might as well come. Things ah' ratha slack at home, just now, anyway."
They had been silent for some moments, when at last he ventured: "Me give fatha four dolla" and here he indicated the number with his two hands, the finger with the cream locking those of the other hand "and one blanket." Wowkle's eyes dilated. "Better keep blanket baby cold," was her ambiguous answer. Whereupon Jackrabbit emitted a low growl.
It's just like my own fatha," and she told him some things of her home which apparently did not interest him very much. He had a kind of dull, cold self-absorption in which he was indeed so little like her father that only her kindness for the lonely man could have justified her in thinking there was any resemblance.
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