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Gimme the bucket-I won't be gone only a a minute. SHE won't
ever know."
"Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n
me. 'Deed she would."
"SHE! She never licks anybody-whacks 'em over the head with her
thimble-and who cares for that, I'd like to know. She talks awful, but
talk don't hurt-anyways it don't if she don't cry.