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Jude, Andy said tell you he ’us ready to start home now an’ to ax you if you ’us a-goin’ with him.

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Do you want him to wait tell you send fer Paw? If you do I’ll tell him.

That’s my advice, but I don’t want to be pig-headed about it.

I don’t, neither. Mebby your way’s the best. But if Andy’s reached the state o’ ’countability ag’in, I’d like to know how he stands on it afore we send fer his daddy. I know if I ’us Andy it ’ld jist make me mad.

I’ll talk to him an’ see what he says. [She goes out.]

How is he now, Rufe—sober enough to ride his horse home?

Yeh, I reckon so, I never seed licker go to nobody’s head like it did to hisn. When a man talks as wild as