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don't 'low to let hit run on no further"

"Sa up

his duty as spokesman, "we're all your kinfolks here, an' we aimed ter

ask ye about this here report thet yer 'lowin' ter leave the s?"

"What of hit?" countered the boy

"Hit looks 'in pretty soon

Air ye a-goin' ter quit, or air ye a-goin' ter stick? Thet's ants ter know"

"I didn't oin' ter bust hit,"

said the boy, quietly "When the war commences, I'll be hyar Ef I

hain't hyar in the meantime, hit hain't nobody's business I hain't

accountable ter no man but oin' ter keep er put another question: "Ef ye're pluht hyar

in these it hit from?" he caustically inquired "Ef the o ter the ure was one they did not understand It was one Sae Lescott But

one thing there hich did not escape his hearers: the tone of

conte hate turned on the visitor at whose door

they laid the blame