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Rh up under it. [ grunts incredulously.] I dunno why, but my mind seems to run nachelly to fightin’.

That’s because your legs ’ld run nachelly t’other way.

[Annoyed]

You’ve never seed ’em run, have you?

No; but he comes of a peaceful family. I mind his gran’daddy durin’ the Confederate war. He wus so peaceful that he knocked his front teeth out tell he couldn’t bite the ends offen the paper cater’ges we used then, so he wouldn’t have to go.

He didn’t b’lieve in fightin’ about niggers! He’d ha’ fit all right if he’d had as much to fight fer as Sid had!

What did Sid fight fer? I’ll bet he don’t know.

Then you got another bet comin’. I fit to lick t’other side!