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"Who told you so!"
"Why, he told Jeff Thatcher, and Jeff told Johnny Baker, and Johnny
told Jim Hollis, and Jim told Ben Rogers, and Ben told a nigger, and
the nigger told me. There now!"
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Well, what of it? They'll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger. I
don't know HIM. But I never see a nigger that WOULDN'T lie. Shucks! Now
you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck."
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Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the
rain-water was."
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In the daytime?"
Certainly."
With his face to the stump?"
Yes. Least I reckon so."
Did he say anything?"
I don't reckon he did. I don't know."
Aha! Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame
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