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Rh tryin' it befo' so very long, Miss Beck, baby.

"I'd be up an' at it now if it wa'n't fer this settin' er aigs. The chicks will be a comin' through any time now. I'm 'spectin' of em this very day. As fer that ol' duck aig—it'll jes' have ter spile. I ain't never 'lowed I'd turn myse'f inter no settin' duck."