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Updated: June 13, 2025
They warn't no sheriffs sales, nuther, a sellin of a feller outer house'n hum an winter comin on, an thar warn't no suein an no jailin of fellers fer debt.
There was a moment's dead silence, then the clamor burst out again. "Not dew nothin?" "What d'ye mean, Laban?" "Nothin baout the taxes?" "Nothin baout the loryers?" "Nothin baout the sheriffs' fees?" "Nothin baout jailin for debt?" "Nothin baout takin prop'ty tew a valiation, Laban?" "Nothin baout movin govment aout o' Bosting?"
I've be'n tu'ned out'n de chu'ch, but I don' know who my enemy is dere, er ef it wuz all a mistake, like dis yer jailin' is; but de Debbil is in dis somewhar, Mars John, an' I got my reasons fer sayin' so." "What do you mean, Sandy?" Sandy related his experience of the preceding evening: how he had seen the apparition preceding him to the house, and how he had questioned Tom upon the subject.
"Oh they hain't done nothin," replied the landlord, "they ain't nothin but debtors. Dern debtors, I don' like to hev the jailin of em. They hain't got no blood intew em like Sabbath-breakers, an blasphemers, an rapers has. They're weakly, pulin kinder chaps, what thar ain't no satisfaction a lockin up an a knockin roun'. They're dreffle deskerridgin kind o' fellers tew.
I reckon she's tryin' to even up with me for jailin' that hobo after she said 'please. Well, two can play at that even-up game." He rose and walked upstairs quietly. As he entered his room he heard the Westons talking. He had noticed that the door of one of their rooms was open. "No, I think he went away with that tall man," he heard the girl say. "Cowboys don't go to bed early when in town."
"No, you wouldn't," contradicted Linda. "You just say that because you want to comfort us for having broken down, instead of trying to tease us as most men would." "He would, too!" said Katy, starting to the Bear Cat with a load of utensils. "Now come on; let's go home and be gettin' craned up and ready for what's goin' to happen to us. Will they be jailin' us, belike, Miss Linda?"
"I declar for't," said Israel Goodrich, with an air of mingled disappointment and wrath, "I be reel put aout, an disappinted like. I dunno what tew make on't. I callated the trouble wuz all over, an times wuz gonter be good and folks live kinder neighbourly 'thout no more suein an jailin, an sellin aout, same ez long from '74 tew '80.
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