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"It 'minds me of Zack Shalliday, and the way he got wedded," came the unctuous chuckle. "Zack was a man 'bout my age, and his daughter was a-keepin' house for him. She was a fine hand to work; the best butter maker on the Unakas; Zack always traded his butter for a extry price. But old as Sis Shalliday was she must 'a' been all of twenty-seven along comes a man that takes a notion to her.
Aw law huh! Business there's two kinds of business; but that was a bad business for Zack Shalliday. I reckon I'll go up on Unaka to-morrow, if Mavity can run the house without me." A vine on Mavity Bence's porch turned to blood crimson.
The old man chuckled as he had at the beginning of this tale. "Well, that was business," agreed Shade impatiently. "When are you goin' to start for Big Unaka?" The old man rolled his great head between his shoulders. "Ye-ah," he assented; "business. But it was bad business for Zack Shalliday.
I wasn't a-goin' to take nobody's word in such a matter, and hauled her on down to the store and seed the storekeeper pay her extry for that thar butter and here we air. Tie the knot, preacher; yer dollar is ready for ye, and we must be gittin' along home it's 'most milkin' time, The preacher he tied the knot, and Shalliday and the new Miz. Shalliday they got along home."
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