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Well, me an’ Bill Hedgpeth unkivered a ten-gallon keg one day ’bout three year ago when we ’us dynamitin’ fish, [Enthusiastically] An’ it’s the best stuff you ever stuck your tongue into! So thick an’ sirupy it clings to the sides o’ the bottle jist like ’lasses!

[Interrupting him]

Stop! Is they any left?

Some. Why?

Why! Ha, ha! Did you hear that, Sid? He wants to know why? ’Course you don’t want to sell it?

Well, my advice to everybody is to let licker alone. But if folks is bound they’re a-goin’ to drink the stuff, I s’pose tain’t no more ’n right to help ’em git sompen good.

[Slaps him on the back]

Spoke like a true Christian!