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Nowhere, I jist got tired o’ settin’ in one place.

[Laughs knowingly]

Rufe allus gits tired o’ the place whar he’s a-settin’ when you start talkin’ about Jude Lowry.

I don’t blame him. You talk so much about gals they ain’t nothin’ new left to say about ’em.

I reckon they air jist about alike the world over. Wus the French uns after you all the time, Sid, same as them here?

I cain’t say ’at I ’us bothered by ’em much.

I’ll bet you wusn’t lonesome. An’ you won’t be here. They’re lots bolder ’n they wus when you left. They’s times now when I don’t feel safe myself. If I ’us your age I’d marry Jude Lowry er some other gal fer pertection. Give me a woman every time to fight a woman.

[At mention of gets up again and moves toward the door aimlessly.]