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Why don’t a mewly cow have horns?

[Despairingly to ]

Couldn’t you git nothin’ out of him?

Nothin’ but a passel o’ words!

[Apologetically, his eyes on ]

I told you I shot at him an’ missed him!

If you missed him, whar is he? Why don’t he come home? [''He looks at her enigmatically and whistles a jig. She flies into a rage.] Stop that an’ answer me er I’ll— [She seizes gun as if to take it from him''.]

Aw right, Sis, blaze away! But I’d ruther you’d let Matt do it. He’s a better shot ’n you are. [She releases the gun.] As fer Sid—at the rate he ’us a-goin’, the last time I seen him he’d ought to be in Chiny by now, if he hain’t run hisself to death.