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The rich folks warn't a grindin the face o' the poor, an the poor they wuzn't a hatin an a envyin o' the rich, nigh untew blood, ez they is naow, ef I dew say it. Yew rekullec them days, Elnathan, warn't it jess ez I say?" "Them wuz good times, Israel. Ye ain't sayin nothin more'n wuz trew," said Elnathan in a feeble treble, from his seat on the settle.
Sure, she continued lightly, we weemin 're niver contint wid the throubles of the day. We're that curious we must be wonderin' how much more's comin'. We may boast iv bein' sensible an' sthrong, but we're alwiz pushin' our tentacles out to feel the sorrow iv to-morrow. I reckoned you'd be hatin' me in a week, ma bouchal.
She paused, an odd expression coming over her face, an expression that baffled Rance's power to read. Presently she resumed: "Now, you asked me to-night if my answer was final, well, here's your chance. I'll play you the game, straight poker. It's two out o' three for me. Hatin' the sight o' you, it's the nearest chance you'll ever get for me."
"Moral," he said, beaming with self-satisfaction, "is handin' a lesson all wrop up in fancy words so's to set folks cussin' like mad they can't understand it, an' hatin' themselves when they're told its meanin'. Now, if I was goin' to show you what a blamed idjut you was without jest sayin' so " "Shut up!" cried Bill. And without waiting for a reply he read on, " with discretion.
The best way to punish a thief, accordin' to my notion, is to keep him everlastingly on the jump, scared to death to show his face anywheres and always hatin' to go to sleep for fear he'll wake up and find somebody pointin' a pistol at him and sayin, 'Well, I got you at last, dang ye. Besides, lockin' Mart up isn't going to bring back Mrs. Gwyn's sheep, is it?"
Andy watched them ride away, a queer expression lighting his face. "They hate like the Ole Scratch to believe me and they are hatin' themselves for havin' to." He pulled off Pete's hat and turned it over, gazing at the two little round holes curiously. "Pete, old scout," he said, smiling whimsically, "here's hopin' they never come closer to gettin' you than they did to gettin' me.
'It is, says I. 'I was thinkin' las' night I'd give up me gredge again ye, says he. 'I had th' same thought mesilf, says I. 'But, since I seen ye'er face, he says, 'I've con-cluded that I'd be more comfortable hatin' ye thin havin' ye f'r a frind, says he. 'Ye're a man iv taste, says I. An' we backed away fr'm each other.
One week passed, and then another, and at last he came back, wet and dripping from his tussle with the river, and cursing the very name of detectives. "W'y, shucks!" he grumbled. "I bummed around in town there for two weeks, hatin' myself and makin' faces at a passel of ornery sheepmen, and what do I git for my trouble? 'Dear Mister Creede, your letter of umpty-ump received.
"Some o' these days," said the old Squire, "that fool Jake's a-goin' to pick up somethin' an' knock that mean Jerry's head off. I wonder he hain't done it afore. Hit's funny how brothers can hate when they do git to hatin'." That night, they tied up at Jackson to be famous long after the war as the seat of a bitter mountain-feud.
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