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Updated: May 20, 2025
Hank's wife, Elmira, had married beneath her, and everybody in our town had come to see it, and used to sympathize with her about it when Hank wasn't around. She'd tell em, yes, it was so. Back in Elmira, New York, from which her father and mother come to our part of Illinoise in the early days, her father had kep' a hotel, and they was stylish kind o' folks.
If all he met joshed that feller the same as me, that book must of been what you might call misleading in spots. One morning I woke up in a good-sized town in Illinoise, not a hundred miles from where I was raised, without no money, and my clothes not much to look at, and no job.
In Illinoise a Yankee is some one from the East, but down South he is anybody from north of the Ohio, and though that there war was fought forty years ago some of them fellers down there don't know damn and Yankee is two words yet. But shucks! they don't mean no harm by it! So I tells him I am a damn Yankee and asts him agin if I can do anything fur him.
It seems to be a kind of habit in these here parts to-night I'm getting homesick fur Illinoise. But I'll take a chancet." "He won't shoot," says Bud, "if yo' go about it right. Beauregard ain't going to be asleep with all this going on in town to-night. Yo' rattle on the iron gate and he'll holler to know what yo' all want." "If he don't shoot first," I says.
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