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Updated: June 28, 2025
But I couldn't figger Doctor Kirby would of done none. So that night after the show I says to him, innocent-like: "Doctor Kirby, what is a quest?" He looks at me kind of queer. "Wherefore," says he, "this sudden thirst for enlightenment?" "I jest run acrost the word accidental-like," I told him. He looks at me awful hard, his eyes jest natcherally digging into me.
I jest natcherally took to print like a duck to water, and inside of a month I was reading nigh everything that has ever been wrote. He had lots of books with him and every time a new sockdologer of a word come along and I learnt how to spell her and where she orter fit in to make sense it kind o' tickled me all over.
"Well, some time near midnight we, out in th' bunkhouse, was roused up by shootin' from your father's bungalow, Bud. Course that couldn't mean but one thing, an' we all got our guns an' rushed out, natcherally. But all we saw was a bunch ridin' off in th' darkness, your father firin' at 'em, Bud. "Come t' find out, your mother had been woke up by a noise in th' office where th' safe was.
But jest then she loses her holt on herself and busts out and jest natcherally bellers. "I hate you!" she says, like she could of killed me. That made me kind of dumb agin. Fur it come to me all to oncet I liked that girl awful well. And here I'd up and made her hate me. I held the book out to her agin and says: "Well, I'm mighty sorry fur that, fur I don't feel that-a-way about you a-tall.
Fur I was thinking that if Hank tries to lick me fur it I'll fight him back this time, which I hadn't never fit him back much yet fur fear he'd pick up something iron around the shop and jest natcherally lay me cold with it. I got home before Hank did. It was nigh sundown, and I was waiting in the door of the shop fur Elmira to holler vittles is ready, and Hank come along. He didn't waste no time.
I could tell how she must have thought of it, often and often, fur years and years, and longed fur it, so that it seemed to her at times she could almost touch it. And how good a mother she would of been to it. Some women has jest natcherally GOT to mother something or other. Miss Lucy was one of that kind.
"Sometimes two words'll start from the same root, an' branch out diff'rent, like 'critter' an' 'hypocritter. A 'hypocritter' must natcherally start by bein' a 'critter, but a critter ain't obliged to be a 'hypocritter' 'thout he wants to." "I should hope not," interpolated Abel Day, piously.
But from the way they answered my questions I seen I wasn't welcome none around there. I suppose that Mrs. Ostrich and Watty had met up agin somewheres, and had jest natcherally run off with each other and left their famblies. Like as not she had left poor old Reginald with that idiotic ostrich feller to sell to strangers that didn't know his disposition.
Sol, in order to conceal his emotion, strode up rather roughly. Mary Newton awoke. "Did you find anything?" she asked. "Find anything?" repeated Shif'less Sol. "Well, Long Jim an' Tom here might never hev found anything, but Henry an' Paul an' me, three eddicated men, scholars, I might say, wuz jest natcherally bound to find it whether it wuz thar or not.
She has jest natcherally made herself boss of that there house, Biddy says, and she's a she-devil. Between all them scientifics and Miss Estelle things has got where Mrs. Booth can't stand 'em much longer. I didn't blame her none fur getting sore on her job, neither.
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