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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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ke her sweet course. He strolled on back toward the house. It was thegentle spring time, and his wife burning beef bonesthat she had gathered up in the yard. T must havesome little excuse for my tirade, he said to himself.When he approached she turned to him and squinted,for her eyes were full of smoke. Are you offering up sweet incense to the gods?he asked. No, Im burnin these here beef bones, an ef youkin find anything sweet in thar smell, wy yo nosehas got suthin the matter with it, thats all. Woman, he slowly began, T see that you are nolover of a touch divine. You are too coarse and lowfor me, the poet. I must therefore banish you. You must do what? she asked, wiping the smokefrom her eyes with the corner of her apron. I must banish you from my realm of poesy. Go. OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 21 ^I dont exactly know what you mean/ she an-swered, but I dont low to take no chances, andwith that she snatched up a wash-board and split itover his head. As he was hastening down the lane, a
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**I dont exactly know what you mean, but I dont lowto take no chances. few moments later, one of the neighbors whom hemet asked: Which way, Hester? but he made noreply. He went to the editor of the county paper, totell him a sad story of the domestic infelicities ofgenius. It is here that my fame is to begin, he 22 OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. mused as he ascended the stairs. He told the editor,and the next issue of the Dumpsy County Broad Axecontained the following: **Bill Hester, the fool that thinks that he can write,has had trouble with his wife. He thought that hecould hector her but he slipped up on himself. Hedid not know that woman. Some time before shemarried old Hoss she was our wife. We married herafter she had got through with a poor old fool namedCollier. We gave her our young love, and at firstshe appeared to love us, but we dont believe she did;at least when she knocked us down and stamped us,we came to the conclusion that our opinion ^had beenrashly formed. The woman sent

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