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"'Me makee all lightee for Sclaggsee, you bettee, hellee dammee! says he. "He was that earnest I overlooked the name. 'Good, says I. 'Now, Charlie, you cut wood, haul water, and keep things goin' out there and your fifty is waitin' for you on Tuesday.
"'You call me "Sclaggsee" oncet more, and I won't leave nothin' of you but a rim, says I. 'As for the other proposition, it goes Tuesday next. Jimmy Holt's place, I put you in hand fifty dollars, you cock-eyed, yaller, mispronouncin' blasphemy on a heathen idol!
"'My Christian friend and brother, says I, 'before we converse upon the root of all evil, let me put you on to the fact that my name is E. G. W. Scraggs. "'Ah! says he, backin' up, 'Sclaggsee! "'Sclaggsee! I hollers, and we near met on the spot. 'Don't you say that agin! "'Ah! says he. "I noticed his guns was wobblin'. "'Ah! says I. 'You're darned right.
"'P'raps, says I, 'but you won't be in condition to spend it for some time. He rolled his eye off'n me, and at that instant Mary Ann, the faithfullest gun that ever stood between me and a gentleman whose intentions weren't good, appeared upon the scene. "'Don'tee shootee, Sclaggsee! he screeches.
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