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| So the old lady says: “Betsy” (this was a nigger woman), “you fly around and get him something to eat as quick as you can, poor thing; and one of you girls go and wake up Buck and tell him—oh, here he is himself. |
| So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says: “Can you spell, Buck?” |
| One day Buck and me was away out in the woods hunting, and heard a horse coming. |
| The woods warn’t thick, so I looked over my shoulder to dodge the bullet, and twice I seen Harney cover Buck with his gun; and then he rode away the way he come—to get his hat, I reckon, but I couldn’t see. |
| Miss Charlotte she held her head up like a queen while Buck was telling his tale, and her nostrils spread and her eyes snapped. |
| Soon as I could get Buck down by the corn-cribs under the trees by ourselves, I says: “Did you want to kill him, Buck?” |
| Next I noticed that Buck was up and gone. |
| Mars Buck he loaded up his gun en ‘lowed he’s gwyne to fetch home a Shepherdson or bust. |
| As soon as they was out of sight I sung out to Buck and told him. |
| I was glad of that; but the way Buck did take on because he didn’t manage to kill Harney that day he shot at him—I hain’t ever heard anything like it. |
