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Rh an’ come back to-morrow mornin’. If you still want to kill six of us then, I’ll let you take your pick.

Ha, ha! You think I’m a dam’ fool, don’t you? Well, I am; but I ain’t that sort!

All right, Andy, jist as you say! If you’d druther begin on what you got here now, I’ll send fer ’em. Only, they ain’t enough to make out your six. [Significantly to ] Rufe, step out thar an’ tell Pap an’ Gran’pap that Andy ’ld like to see ’em here on pertickler business.

No! [To ] You grow to the place where you’re a-standin’! [Turns to ] Don’t neither of you move a peg ner bat a eye!

All right, Andy. Whatever you say’s gospel as fur as I’m concerned!

I know dam’ well it is! Rufe, git your banjer!

[ obeys, taking the banjo from a peg on the wall.]

Can you pick “Turkey in the Straw”?