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Title: Opie Read in the Ozarks, including many of the rich, rare, quaint, eccentric, ignorant and superstitious sayings of the natives of Missouri and Arkansaw
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
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Publisher: Chicago, R. B. McKnight & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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her own way,and a poor enough way it is. But wont you please goon back? The manager says he doesnt want anytrouble with you, but that you must stop following theshow. If he dont want any trouble with me, hed betterlet me alone. But wont you go back? Not till you go with me.* But that is impossible. Listen to me, he said, in a voice hardened withthe tone of command. I believe that it is the will ofGod that you shall go home with me. It may seemimpossible now, but before long it may be perfectlyclear. There is a disposition in this here world totread on the lowly poets, but let me tell you that theyare the true apostles of the Lord. Will you go backwith me now ? You are simply a foolish boy. No, I cant go withyou. Wait a moment, he cried, but the woman ranaway. OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 37 The show had wound its way among the thin set-tlements of southwest Missouri, had turned about andwas now within twelve miles of the Honeycutt bluffs.The ^^grand aggregation had put up its canvas near
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Stand back or Ill kill the last one of you. She is minenow—shes goin home with me. Walnut Hill. The afternoons performance was soonto begin. The girl stood just within the doorway ofthe dressing room. The poet spoke to her.Its just twelve miles to where I live, he said. 38 OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. Then it wont take you long to get home, she re-plied, smiling at him. It might as well be ten thousand miles unless youagree to go with me. Well, then, ten thousand be it. I have been verypatient with you, but Fm getting tired now. Theyhave begim to laugh at me, and I cant stand that. Just then she was summoned, and she tripped awayto gallop around the ring. The poet took his accus-tomed place and sat gazing at her. Rain was fallingand the tent was leaking. The horse stepped into apuddle and slipped just as the girl was about to jumpover a banner. She shrieked and fell—her head struckand she lay there. In a second the poet was bendingover her. A number of showmen rushed forward. Back, sh

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