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"Ef --"I'd hev

laer a little"

"I hain't got no use fer these newfangled notions" Spicer spoke with

careful curbing of his impatience "Yore pap stood out fer eddycation

He had ideas about law an' all that, an' he talked 'eot shot ter

death Yore Uncle John South went down below, an' got ter be a lawyer

He come home hyar, an' ondertook ter penitentiary Jesse Purvy, when

Jesse was High Sheriff I reckon ye knohat happened ter hi and the older s"

"They didn't run his"

"No" The faical clih, an' was a-fixin' ter move He

staid one day too late Jesse Purvy hired him shot"