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"Oh, but I WAS angry to have her speak to me so haughty an' so
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Lord, render unto her double!' It was a dreadful prayer, an' I
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"Well, I didn't rightly know which way to turn; but I went to the
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before a grand jury. So I went into the town when they was
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walked right up to the grandest-lookin' one I could see, an' says
I to him,--
"'Sir, be you a grand jury?'
"An' then he wanted to know why I asked, an' I told him all about
it; an' he asked me all sorts of questions, an' finally he says to
me,--
"'I think, ef you pay me ten dollars, that I'd agree to git your
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with scars an' hard lumps, where boylove nude art they'd flogged him.
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I, 'O Lord, I
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"Well, I went in an' tended that poor critter all night. She was
out of her
mind,--a-cryin',