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"Mamma says you're the most forgetful boy she ever heard of," said Jane, calmly. "She says you can't remember anything two minutes." William's brow darkened. "Now look here " he began, with severity. But the old darky intervened. "Some folks got good rickaleckshum an' some folks got bad," he said, pacifically. "Young white germmun rickalect mo' in two minute dan what I kin in two years!"
"I felt mighty shaky once, I rickalect; dat time yalla m'latta man shootin' at me f 'um behime a snake-fence." "Shootin' at you!" Jane cried, stirred from her accustomed placidity. "Mr. Genesis! What DID he do that for?" "Nuff'm!" replied Mr. Genesis, with feeling. "Nuff'm in de wide worl'! He boun' to shoot SOMEbody, an' pick on me 'cause I 'uz de handies'."
Yes'm, I reckon so." "How old were you when you were married?" William asked, with a manner of peculiar earnestness; it was the manner of one who addresses a colleague. "Me? Well, suh, dat 'pen's." He seemed to search his memory. "I rickalect I 'uz ma'ied once in Looavle," he said. Jane's interest still followed the first child. "Was that where it was born, Mr. Genesis?" she asked.
"Seem like I rickalect SOMEBODY got name good deal like what I say, 'cause some mighty blue-vein names at 'at dinnuh-potty, yessuh! But I on'y git to be 'nouncer one time, 'cause Fanny tellin' me nex' fam'ly have dinnuh-potty make heap o' fun.
Ef it uz me I couldn't c'leck 'em in de firs' place, an' ef I could, dey wouldn' be no use to me, 'cause I couldn't rickalect 'em!" "Well, it isn't so hard," said William, "if you kind of get the hang of it." Obviously pleased, he plucked a spear of grass and placed it between his teeth, adding, "I always did have a pretty good memory."
"I can remember things that happened when I was four years old." "So can I," said Jane. "I can remember when I was two. I had a kitten fell down the cistern and papa said it hurt the water." "My goo'ness!" Mr. Genesis exclaimed. "An' you 'uz on'y two year ole, honey! Bes' I kin do is rickalect when I 'uz 'bout fifty." "Oh no!" Jane protested.
"You said you remembered havin' a baby when you were seventeen, Mr. Genesis." "Yes'm," he admitted. "I mean rickalect good like you do 'bout yo' li'l' cat an' all how yo' pappy tuck on 'bout it. I kin rickalect SOME, but I cain' rickalect GOOD." William coughed with a certain importance. "Do you remember," he asked, "when you were married, how did you feel about it?
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