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Updated: May 10, 2025

You-all have been a-thinkin' as how I was plumb blind, I reckon; but I seen you, every evenin', when she'd pretend ter just go for a walk an' then'd make straight for the clearin' where you was a-choppin', an' then you'd quit, an' set with her up there on the hill. Youuns never knowed I was a-watchin' from the bresh all the time, did you?

Harold Bell Wright - The Re-Creation of Brian Kent