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"I think so," replied the Governor, "but the snow's so thick I can't see;" he opened the window and put out his head. "Are we nearly there, Hosea?" "We des done pas' de clump er cedars, suh," yelled Hosea through the storm. "I'ud a knowd 'em ef dey'd come a-struttin' down de road dey cyarn fool me. Den we got ter pas' de wil' cher'y and de gap in de fence, en dar we are."
I was born on a wayback farm in Connecticut, where the rocks was so thick we used ter round the sheep up once a week an' sharpen thar noses on the grin'stun, so't they could get 'em 'tween the stuns. I walked a mile to school winters, an' stubbed my toes on the farm summers, till I was fourteen, an' then the old man 'greed to give me my time till I was twenty-one if I'ud pay him half I earned.
A few comprehended the spirit of the contest, and took up arms from principle; a few, also, declared their enmity to "Yankee institutions," and had seized the occasion to "polish them off," and "give them a ropein' in;" but many said it was "dull in our deestreeks, an' the niggers was runnin' away, so I thought I'ud jine the foces."
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