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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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young men sent him afterwhisky. He brought the first June apples tied up ina red bandana handkerchief; in a sack he carried thefirst watermelon of the season. He found the firstpartridge nest in the wheat; he knew where the guineahen laid her speckled eggs. He liked to hang aboutthe stables where blanketed horses were training forthe race; and he knew the pedigree of the flyers, thetime that they had made, their ages, their tempera-ments. He knew the numbers of all the railway en-gines that came through the town, and from a dis-tance was wont to cry, Yander comes ole twenty-six.He was devoted to children, but always appeared to beon the verge of a quarrel with them. You gwinefool roun yere till you git hurt, he would say. Anmon dat, de ole Bad Man gwine snatch you up onedeze days an run off wid you uner his arm. Hesdun had his eye on you fur some time. He aintgwine put up wid yo foolishness much longer; hedoan like de way you treat deze ole folks dat longs 84 OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS.
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Young women entrusted their perfumed notes to him;young men sent him after whisky. OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 85 ter de Lawcl You better look roun. He ain fur ofif.Look at 3^ou dar now, wipin yo greasy bans on yocloze! Ought ter be shamed o yo sef ter spile demnice gyarmints dat Marse John dun gib you. Whut,you flung dat braid an meat erway? Neber mine,boy, darll come er time wen you wish you had datvidults. Oh, I knows you is mighty brash now, butyoull come down atter wile, an youll come downker bip! Dats how youll come down. De Lawd neb-ber did lub er chile dat flings vidults erway. De Lawdjes nachully spizes sich er chile ez dat. But youll beall right ef you haves yosef. Youse er putty chile,anyhow; an fo gracious, I does blebe you gwine begood. Go on in de house now, and fetch me er biscuitwid butter an sugar on it. Dats er bright chile, now;go on. I know whar dars er ole coon libs in er tree,an it ain gwine be long fo I go dar an git him; anI ain gwine teck nobody wid jne. I ain gw

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