Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 48
tnut. I don have no truck wid sich trashmosly. Did he take em somewhuz on de bigboat ? asked Orphy, breathlessly. Uncle Mose brightened at his interest. A GOURD FIDDLE. Well, yas, he admitted, mollified ; hetuck em, an he gun em good wagers whilstdey s wid im — an dey rashions. Is he gittin mo now… … Yas, answered Uncle Mose, with a dis-couraged and discouraging shake of the head;but I boun y he don tek a-minny dish yertime. Boys ez no count now. Wy, in myday an time — and he embarked upon a longstory which lasted to the end of that row andturned the next. But Orphy heard none of it; his head…
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