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Polly was too disgusted to answer at once. "Slim Hoover, shucks! Slim doesn't care for girls he's afraid of 'em," she said at length. "I like Bud, with all his orneriness," she declared. "Why doesn't he come to see you more often?" "I don't know, maybe it's because he's never forgiven you for marryin' Jack." "Why should he mind that?" she asked, startled.
I figgered from what he said that I'd had consumption the LONGEST while, but my kind of kidney trouble was an awful SLY kind, and it was lible to jump in without no warning a-tall and jest natcherally wipe me out QUICK. So I sort o' bet on the kidney trouble. But I seen I was a goner, and I forgive Hank all his orneriness, fur a feller don't want to die holding grudges.
I give him as good as he sent on this here earth, and I ain't the one to carry no annermosities beyond the grave. I forgive Hank all the orneriness he done me, and they was a lot of it, as is becoming unto a church member, which he never was." And all the women but Mis' Primrose, they says: "Elmira Appleton, you HAVE got a Christian sperrit!"
"Now I'd sort of upheld the general intemperance of that poker game for three days and nights but I don't offer my condition as an excuse for what follows. No gentleman ought to lay his indecencies onto John Barley corn when they're nothing more nor less than the outcroppin's of his own orneriness. Liquor has got enough to answer for without being blamed for human depravities.
They got together to wipe out their grudges and sometimes they didn't need any grudge and let loose their deviltries just for pure orneriness; setting haystacks afire and such like; or, where a farmer had offended them, they would put on their silly toggery and take him out at midnight and whip him and plunder his house and chase the horses and cattle into his corn, maybe.
"But mebbe he won't bother you, for he's workin' near town for that new man that's moved into the old Fleigler place. Bronson's his name. But if Pete don't bother you, Sam may." "Sam's the father?" "Yep. And one poor farmer and mean man, if ever there was one! Oh, Pete comes by his orneriness honestly enough." "Oh, I hope I'll have no trouble with any neighbor," said Hiram, hopefully.
And then had in a final burst of wrath told Green Valley that like Sodom and Gomorrah it was doomed, that no mere man preacher could save it, that its only hope lay in Grandma Wentworth, who alone understood its miserable, petty orneriness. He meant to leave town a sputtering, raging man, that minister, full of what he called righteous wrath.
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