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Every second was like to see it keeled squar' over, or slipped and driv' in, straight on to the rocks. "We're used to other'n fa'r weather along this shore. I calk'late we ain't used to frighten at a little danger, but knowin' the sea so well, we know the helplessness a'most o' puttin' out in sech a gale as that. "I heered the sound.
And that's all o' that'n; and the other'n I promised David Mason Jeffries I wouldn't never tell no livin' soul 'less he gimme leef, er they guessed it out their own se'f!"
F. Johnson, read me this," and I handed him the poem. The old man smiled and took the manuscript. "This-here one's on 'The Hoss, " he said, simply clearing his throat. "They ain't so much fancy- work about this as the other'n, but they's jest as much FACT, you can bet 'cause, they're no animal a-livin' 'at I love better 'an
"You got nothin' on me now, Jew, and you never will have. Well, come on, you bulls, let's be goin' along. I wouldn't want the neither one of you for steady company. One of you is too polite and the other'n too meek for my tastes." The man who was called Stretchy Gorman spoke a prophetic word when he said the police had nothing on him.
Three of 'em's still livin'. I can't say much for my chillun. I don' lak to feel hard, but I tried to raise my chillun de bes' I could. I educated 'em; even bought 'em a piano an' give em' music. One of 'em is in Memphis, 'nother'n in Detroit, an' de other'n in Chicago. I writes to 'em to he'p me, but don' never hear from 'em. I's old an' dey is forgot me, I guess.
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