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I
COULDN'T understand it no way at all. It was outrageous,
and I knowed I ought to just up and tell him so;
and so be his true friend, and let him quit the thing
right where he was and save himself. And I DID start
to tell him; but he shut me up, and says:
"Don't you reckon I know what I'm about? Don't
I generly know what I'm about?"
"Yes.