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But I was goin' fer to say that when Squire Hawkins married Virginny Gray he got a heap o' money, or, what's the same thing mostly, a heap o' good land. And that's better'n book-larnin', says I. Ef a gal had gone clean through all eddication, and got to the rule of three itself, that would-n buy a feather-bed.
Twenty year ago, when he come to these 'ere diggings, that air Squire Hawkins was a poar Yankee school-master, that said 'pail' instid of bucket, and that called a cow a 'caow, and that couldn't tell to save his gizzard what we meant by 'low and by right smart . But he's larnt our ways now, an' he's jest as civilized as the rest of us. You would-n know he'd ever been a Yankee.
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