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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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ff his old whitecotton hat, wiped his perspiring brow with it, and ina solemn voice said: Alf, this here is whut a man gits fur goin off atterthe vanaties of the flesh. I want satisfied with biledcon an sweet potatoes, but must have midlin meat ansich. The Lawd wont put up with pride in this hereworld, Alf. He jest nachully wont do it. Your part of the country is developing rapidly, isit not? was asked of a Missouri man. Oh, yes, mighty fast. Why, sir, only a few yearsago we still used the old-fashioned pepper-box pistol,but we now have double-action revolvers that wouldreflect credit on any community. The superintendent of the Arkansaw penitentiary,upon meeting old Foster, who had served a term inprison, asked: What are you doing now? Preachin, sah. What, preaching when you have just come out ofthe penitentiary? Oh, yas, sah, fur dat doan make no diffunce.Dats de time fur er man ter preach, case den er niggerby bein shet up wid so many white men knows whut OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 6i
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You dont intend to work, then?Well, not if I can help it. I aint able. 62 OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. sins dar is in de worl. Ef yer wants ter gust er nig-ger, boss, pen him up wid white men. Baxter Phimmer, an old negro well known in theneighborhood of the recent race war in Arkansaw,was sitting on a stump in his dooryard, repairing thebow of an ox-yoke, when a man of pleasant addressapproached him and said: Is this Mr. Baxter Plummer? Yas, sah, you hit de nail on de head dat time, sho.Whut ken I do fur yer, sah? he added, as he put theox-bow down beside the stump. Oh, nothing at all. I was merely passing, and, notbeing in a hurry, thought I would stop a few momentsand chat with you. I have heard of you a number oftimes. J. W. Buck, who keeps the plantation supplystore, has told me a good deal about you. Yas, sah; yas, an I lay dat he didnt tell you datI hab eber glected ter pay fur everthing dat I got daron er credic. Upon the contrary, he says that you are a man ofmost unsullied integ

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