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The clearing resounded with phrases of intricate politeness: "Thank you to trouble you fer one them pickles, Si." "Please'm gi' me a little your tongue, Miz Dade." "Reach me some more bread, if you don't care whut you do, Quin." Beyond the long tables little private parties sat here and there, ranged around red table-cloths, flat on the ground, stuffing, greasy-fingered, hospitable, happy.
Me an' this gent here" he waved his hand toward Pat with elaborate formality, to the huge delight of his audience "me an' this here gent is first uncles to that kid, an' any pop-eyed, lop-eared, greasy-fingered cross between a coyot' an' a jack-rabbit that comes a-pouncin' out o' the wilds o' civilization to jump our claim by makin' insinuations that we ain't competent to see that the aforementioned kid has proper bringin' up an' that Brother Worth ain't a proper daddy for her, had best come loaded for trouble.
Oliver tried, and admitted that it was good; then, observing that little Oscar had just finished his fourth venison steak, he politely handed him the trencher. The greasy-fingered boy gravely helped himself to number five, and assailed it as if he had only just begun to terminate a long fast.
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