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"There was one of the books over to the lib'ry," he heard himself meandering on, "with a queer story in it. I got to reading it through, one night last winter. It was about a feller named 'Fed'rigo. A wop of some kind, I guess. He got so hard up he didn't have anything left but a pet falcon. Whatever a falcon may be. Whatever it was, it must'a been good to eat. But he set a heap of store by it.
Th' ain't anything much mo' tantalizin' to a person than uncertainty in sech matters. She was mighty plain, an' yet some o' the boys seemed to see beauty in her. I know my brother Bob, he confided to mother once-t thet he thought she looked thess precizely like the Queen o' Sheba must'a' looked, an' I ricollec' thet he cried bitter because mother told it out on him at the dinner-table.
"How d'ye suppose I know! They must'a' been a tarnal old womanish lookin' set any way." "The tribe o' Judah, pa," said Grandma, gravely. "Now, how good it is, husband, to have your understandin' all freshened up on the scripters!" "Come, come, ma!" said Grandpa, rising nervously, "It's time we was startin'. When I make up my mind to go anywhere I always want to git there in time.
"Well, I reckon we'll get something to eat there whether they've got anything or not." And then Chad explained, telling the story of his walk from Frankfort. The Major was amazed that anybody could have denied the boy food and lodging. "Who were they, Tom?" he asked The old driver turned: "They was some po' white trash down on Cane Creek, I reckon, suh. Must'a' been."
Grim, imperturbable old dames sitting on their porches smoking their clay or corncob pipes regarded the strange procession with mild curiosity; toilers in gardens and barnyards merely remarked to themselves that "some'pin must'a happened some'eres" and called out to housewife or offspring not to let them forget to "mosey up to the square" later in the day for particulars, if any.
"I judged it shore lay in this direction, but like yuh says, it must'a ben a steamer out yonder on the gulf mebbe thet rev'nue boat they done tole us to watch out fur er else some o' them spongers frum up Tarpon Springs way. Anyhow, I got all I wants o' exercise so I move weuns call hit a day an' get back to the shanty."
Miss Feely must'a left it on the bed, and it got caught in the clothes, and so got in my sleeve. Miss Ophelia was so angry at such a barefaced lie that she caught Topsy and shook her. 'Don't tell me that again, she said. The shake brought the gloves on the floor from the other sleeve. 'There, said Miss Ophelia, 'will you tell me now you didn't steal the ribbon?
'It wor our Alfred scared him off, back your life. He must'a flyed ower t'valley. Tha ma' thank thy stars as 'e wor fun, Maggie. 'E'd a bin froze. They a bit nesh, you know, he concluded to me. 'They are, I answered. 'This isn't their country. 'No, it isna, replied Mr. Goyte. He spoke very slowly and deliberately, quietly, as if the soft pedal were always down in his voice.
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