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Jumbo waved them to silence and Perry's blood burned to fire in his veins as he realized the break he had made. "Yassuh!" repeated Jumbo. "This yeah's a sho-nuff license, and the pa'ties concerned one of 'em is dis yeah young lady, Miz Betty Medill, and th' other's Mistah Perry Pa'khurst." There was a general gasp, and a low rumble broke out as all eyes fell on the camel.
"Hello!" he said again. He had turned round the camel's marriage license, which he had been holding upside down, produced spectacles, and was studying it agonizingly. "Why," he exclaimed, and in the pervading silence his words were heard plainly by every one in the room, "this yeah's a sho-nuff marriage permit." "What?" "Huh?" "Say it again, Jumbo!" "Sure you can read?"
The crowd pressed up closer and stared at him as he stood frozen rigid with embarrassment, his cardboard face still hungry and sardonic, regarding the ominous Jumbo. "You-all bettah speak up!" said Jumbo slowly, "this yeah's a mighty serous mattah. Outside mah duties at this club ah happens to be a sho-nuff minister in the Firs' Cullud Baptis' Church.
"Why," he exclaimed, and in the pervading silence his words were heard plainly by everyone in the room, "this yeah's a sho-nuff marriage permit." "What?" "Huh?" "Say it again, Jumbo!" "Sure you can read?" Jumbo waved them to silence and Perry's blood burned to fire in his veins as he realized the break he had made. "Yassuh!" repeated Jumbo.
Doctor Will is Doctor Jim's brother, and is, according to the negroes, a "sho-nuff" doctor. Doctor Jim's life is comfortably monotonous. He had put up the first windmill in the region roundabout and his was the first real bath-tub in the county, and long before Donaldsville thought of water-works, Doctor Jim's windmill was keeping the big cistern on stilts filled from his deep artesian well.
"This yeah's a sho-nuff license, and the pa'ties concerned one of 'em is dis yeah young lady, Miz Betty Medill, and th' other's Mistah Perry Pa'khurst." There was a general gasp, and a low rumble broke out as all eyes fell on the camel. Betty shrank away from him quickly, her tawny eyes giving out sparks of fury. "Is you Mistah Pa'khurst, you camel?" Perry made no answer.
Outside mah duties at this club ah happens to be a sho-nuff minister in the Firs' Cullud Baptis' Church. It done look to me as though y'all is gone an' got married." The scene that followed will go down forever in the annals of the Tallyho Club.
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