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Updated: June 8, 2025
"'Wal, says Mother Hokum, 'what if 'tis? Money's money, get it how ye will; and the Devil's money 'll buy as much meat as any. I'd go to the Devil, if he gave good money. "'Wal, I guess I wouldn't, says I. 'Don't you 'member the sermon Parson Lothrop preached about hastin' to be rich, last sabba' day? "'Parson Lothrop be hanged! says she.
"'Ef you'd a been left to get that 'are money, there'd a come a cuss with it, says I. 'It shows the vanity o' hastin' to be rich. "'Oh, you shet up! says Hokum, says he. 'You never hasted to any thing, says he. Ye see, he was riled, that's why he spoke so." "Sam," said we, after maturely reflecting over the story, "what do you suppose was in that pot?"
"Oh! he started to go over to England, and the ship was wrecked off the Irish coast, and that was the last of him. He never got to his property." "Good enough for him," said both of us. "Wal, I don't know: 'twas pretty hard on Jeff. Mebbe he did, and mebbe he didn't. I'm glad I warn't in his shoes, tho'. I'd rather never hed nothin'. This 'ere hastin' to be rich is sich a drefful temptation.
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