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I dunno. Where’s all the folks?

I hain’t seen ’em. I jist now come downstairs.

They ain’t all out o’ the house in this storm?

They must be out at the barn, lookin’ arter the critters.

Yeh, I reckon that’s it.

Sid, you didn’t do nuthin’ to rile Andy, did you?

Not to my knowledge I didn’t. My saddle geart wus loose an’ I got off my horse to fix it. He seed me reach in my back pocket fer my knife, an’ afore you could say scat he jerked out his pistol an’ put a bullet through my hat!

I shore am glad it ’us your hat, Sid, an’ not you!