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"I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin' round an' slashin' the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my boys!" "What in the world is Polly Pepper doing up on those rocks?" cried Jasper, just spying her.
'Thank you, said the doctor. 'I will make a note of it. 'It wants nerve, seemin' to me. Roger Olver rubbed his chin. 'That is understood. 'For my part, if it happened I had a stick, I'd slash out at the beggar's forelegs so an' keep slashin' same as if I was mowin' grass. Or, if I hadn' a stick, I'd kick straight for his forelegs an' chest; he's easy to cripple there, an' he knows it.
Then he laid off an' hit me in the jaw. Ah don't know what Ah done next, but before Ah knowed it Ah had a hold of a shuck-in' knife and was slashin' at him with it. A knife like that's a turruble thing to stab a man with. It took four of 'em to hold me down an' git it away from me. They didn't keep me from givin' him a good cut across the chest, though. Ah was juss crazy drunk at the time.
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