Opie Read in the Ozarks, including many of the rich, rare, quaint, eccentric, ignorant and superstitious sayings of the natives of Missouri and Arkansaw (1905) (14746505646)

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Title: Opie Read in the Ozarks, including many of the rich, rare, quaint, eccentric, ignorant and superstitious sayings of the natives of Missouri and Arkansaw
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
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Publisher: Chicago, R. B. McKnight & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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anhader tole me dat I wuz sicher fool ez dis I would erhit him, sho. Who is all dem men comin? They are coming to help me take you to town. Wedont want your friends to attempt any foolishness,you know. I have been waiting for those men andhave therefore talked longer than was actually neces-sary. Let me put these handcuffs on you. Wall, ef dis doan beat anything I eber seed. Huh,ef er man had tole me dat I wuz sich er fool I wouldermixed wid him right dar. Man bon o woman is o erfew days an er blame fool. How many cows does your father milk? askeda man of a boy that sat on a fence near a Missourihomestead. Dont milk none, the boy answered. Im sorry to hear it, for I am about to start acheese factory in this neighborhood, and want to knowhow much milk I can depend on. So your fatherdont milk any? No, pap dont. Well, how many cows has your father? OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 69 He aint got none, pap haint/Well, I declare, and yet he seems to be very wellfixed. Yas, reckon he is well fixed.
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Taps been dead a year or more and blamed ef I cansee what he wants with a cow. Why dont he buy some cows?Dont need em, I reckon.But dont your mother like milk?Oh, yes, mighty fond of it. 70 OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. And dont you? Yas, powerful. And yet you do without it just because your fatherdont happen to Hke it. No, dont do without it. Drink a all-fired sightof it. Oh, you buy it, I suppose. No, we milk it. Thought you said your father had no cows. I did. Paps been dead a year or more, and blamedef I can see what he wants with a cow. If you had aasked me how many cows mam had I could a-toldyou. In the neighborhood surrounding Henseleys Grove,a sleepy station on a Southern railway, in Arkansas,there was but one feature^ to attract attention and thatwas a young fellow with one leg. His name was DanPeters; and he had lost his leg one night while tryingto save a passenger train. There had been a suddenrise in Goose Creek and the bridge had been sweptaway. Dan had been to mill that morn