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I expect I look a right smart like Johnny-on-the-spot to some folks I could name.

Not to me, you don’t! You look edzackly like a crow sign in a watermillon patch! You ought to hire yourself out fer one! It ’ld give you sompen to do an’ wouldn’t skeer the crows none!

I’ve skeered bigger game ’n crows in my time.

You’ve never skeered me—if that’s what you’re a-drivin’ at!

You cain’t fool me, Andy. A man don’t work as hard as you’re a-workin’ now to prove he ain’t skeered unless he is.

[ ''rushes up to the door, panting from exhaustion. He sees and stops suddnelysuddenly [sic] in the doorway''.]

You seem to be in a hurry, Rufe.