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Why, I jist told you I wus!

Didn’t you hear him say it? They ain’t no need in bawlin’ at him like that! He’s got feelin’s, like the rest of us!

Hold on, Paw. I don’t want to be the cause o’ no fracas. I’ve toted that ole pack all over the world an’ ’tain’t a-goin’ to hurt me to fetch it this much further.

No, you stay whar you air! He’s got out of enough work here!

I ain’t a-tryin’ to git out o’ nothin’! I’m a-tryin’ hard to do anything you ax me, no matter what it is!

[He goes out.]

I never knowed nobody to git me r’iled up like he does. [To ] That’s the kind o’ help I’ve had while you ’us away.

Yeh, I’ve seed folks like him—kinder tetchy.