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I knows yer, I's er-gwine ter make yo' mammy gi' ye de worses' whippin' yer eber got an' I's gwine ter take dis here William right ober ter Miss Minerva. Ain't y' all 'shame' er yerselves? Er tamperin' wid de ha'r what de good Lord put on er colored pusson's head an' ertryin' fer ter scarify my feelin's like yer done. An' yer hear me, I's gwine see dat somebody got ter scarify yer hides."
"If that's the way things are going on I suppose the servants leave their places pretty often?" "I don't know about that, sir. A man may do a deal worse than 'The Dragon of Wantly'. Them as goes away to better themselves, often worses themselves, as I call it. I've seen a good deal of that." "And you stick to the old shop?" "Yes, sir; I've been here fifteen years, I think it is.
She smiled forlornly. "What a tangle of 'worses' I've tied it up in, haven't I?"
"Maurice loves you, too," she hoped to conciliate him; "he says you are the brightest kid in town." "Kid," was the scornful echo, "'cause he's so big and tall, he's got to call me a kid. Well, he'd jes' awasting' hi'self lovin' me; I don't like him an' I ain't agoin' to never like him an' soon's I puts on long pants he's goin' to get 'bout the worses' lickin' he ever did see.
Boys and girls all assembled, the more the merrier, generally in the dusk of the evening, and sneaked quietly down into the alley at the back of the Worses' house, and when they got under Samuelsen's shop-window, they began singing, to a well-known air "Little Pitter Nilken, Sitting on his chair! He's always growing smaller, The longer he sits there."
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