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"Nor church?" ssssssssss

"Nor church." ssssssssss

"But you always went to church."

Well, I was gone up again. I forgot I was the old man's servant. But next

minute I whirled in on a kind ssssssssss

of an explanation how a valley ssssssssss

was different from a common ssssssssss

servant, and had to go to ssssssssss

church whether he wanted ssssssssss

to or not, and set with the ssssssssss

family, on account of it's ssssssssss

being the law. But I didn't ssssssssss

do it pretty good, and when I ssssssssss

got done I see she warn't ssssssssss

satisfied. She says: ssssssssss

"Honest injun, now,

hain't you been telling me a ssssssssss

lot of lies?" ssssssssss

"Honest injun," says I.

"None of it at all?"

"None of it at all. Not a

lie in it," says I. ssssssssss

"Lay your hand on this

book and say it." ssssssssss

I see it warn't nothing but

a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it. So then she looked a little

better satisfied, and says: ssssssssss

"Well, then, I'll believe some of it; but I hope to gracious if I'll believe the

rest."

"What is it you won't believe, Joe?" says Mary Jane, stepping in with

Susan behind her. "It ain't right nor kind for you to talk so to him, and him

a stranger and so far from his people. How would you like to be treated so?"

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