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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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cted, it was not a time to amuse children withstories, but to kill men with guns. The old man dis-appeared in the smoke, went far away where the hazehung over the hill, and no one gave him a thought.The negroes heard a loud cry from the North, andstartled, stood in groups wondering at their freedom.But the old man was not among them. His freedomhad come, but had not been shouted by man. It hadbeen whispered by death. Two Little Rock negroes engaged in a quarrel whenone struck the other on the head with a wagon-spoke.The negro that had received the blow, rubbed his headfor a moment and then said: Took yere, Stephen, dars one thing dat is erpowerful blessin fur you. Whuts dat? De fact dat my head is ez thick ez it is. Wy efmy head want no thicker den de common run oheads, dat lick would er killed me an den you woulder been tuck befo er jestice o de peace an finedmighty nigh twenty dollars. Youd better thank deLawd dat I aint got one deze yere aig-shell heads, OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 87
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