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"It's something they give me for learning my lessons good"

He tore it up, and says --

"I'll give you something better -- I'll give you a cowhide.'

He set there a-mumbling and a-growling a minute, and then he says --

"Ain't you a sweet-scented dandy, though? A bed; and bedclothes; and

a look'n-glass; and a piece ssssssssss

of carpet on the floor -- and ssssssssss

your own father got to sleep ssssssssss

with the hogs in the tanyard. ssssssssss

I never see such a son. I ssssssssss

bet I'll take some o' these ssssssssss

frills out o' you before I'm;' ssssssssss

done with you. Why there ssssssssss

ain't no end to your airs -- ssssssssss

they say you're rich. Hey? ssssssssss

-- how's that?" ssssssssss

"They lie -- that's how."

"Looky here -- mind how

you talk to me; I'm a-stand- ssssssssss

ing about all I can stand, ssssssssss

now -- so don't gimme no sass. ssssssssss

I've been in town two days, ssssssssss

and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. I heard about it away

down the river, too. That's why I come. You git me that money to-morrow --

I want it." ssssssssss

"I hain't got no money."

"It's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it. You git it. I want it,"

"I hain't got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher; he'll tell you

the same." ssssssssss

"All right. I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the

reason why. Say -- how much you got in your pocket? I want it."

"I hain't got only a dollar, and I want that to"

"It don't make no difference what you want it for -- you just shell it out."??

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