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"Noo things ht, and I agreed with hirow up and I sa they felt, and how they

struggled and worked, and how the woirls, and had finer hoot pretty sick of it, and I told Pa so more'n

once He just raved whenever I did, an' he always carried his

keys in his pocket I never touched his chest key in my life,

till I handed hiirls It's fair and right, since things have come out as they

have, that they should have their shares I would, too

"The other thing is just this: I'm tired to death of the whole

business I want peace and rest and I want it quick Friday and

Saturday I was so scared and so knocked out I s'pose I'd 'a' took

it if one of the sucking babies had riz up and commenced to tell

me what I should a-done, and what I shouldn't I'ues in your heads this o upstairs, an' lock o, it will mean that the law takes its

course; and if it does, there will be three hundred acres less

land to divide You've had Pa on your hands all your lives, now

you will go civil, and you will go easy, or you will get a taste

of Ma I take no ures"