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"They say that he is a tumble, tumble man," the blacksmith averred, ever and anon rubbing the stump of his amputated hammer-arm, in which, though bundled in its jeans' sleeve, he had the illusion of the sensation of its hand and fingers.
The blacksmith's shop, the centre of the primitive civilization, had soon an expectant group in its widely flaring doors, for the smith had had enough of the war, and had come back to wistfully, hopelessly haunt his anvil like some uneasy ghost visiting familiar scenes in which he no more bears a part; a minié-ball had shattered his stanch hammer-arm, and his duties were now merely advisory to a clumsy apprentice.
A gigantic young blacksmith looked down at his corded hammer-arm, but said nothing. A fly several flies buzzed about the sorghum barrel. "My son," shrilly piped out Old Daddy, "my son air the bes' shot on this hyar mounting." "That's a true word, Old Daddy," assented the schoolmaster, who had ceased to be a Nimrod since devoting himself to teaching the young idea how to shoot.
Well, the winter passed, and spring came on again, and 'twas in the May o' that year that I did break my hammer-arm. God above us only knows what would 'a' befallen us had 't not been for my Keren. Wilt believe 't?
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