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such a lie on us? And he stuttered so he could hardly talk and I held a long butcher knife up and when he saw that he begin to shake like some thing with a hard chill and of all the excuses he made then. He was scared within an inch of his life. I said Andrew if I ever hear another lie you've told on us I kill you, so that was the last one.
I forgot to tell you about the time he and Mary came to pick up sweet potatoes and Stella had them to sit at the kitchen table to eat their dinner and Stella came out on the gallery where I was and she said Pearl; don't you dare to go around them as when I walked back of the chair where they were eating I saw head lice crawling all on her neck so after they left that evening she told papa not to hire them any more that she'd pick up the taters.
One day Andrew's father was sitting reading a newspaper and some fellow walked up and Mr. Huston said I see here where they've had a ship wreck and the man said Mr. Huston you have your paper upside down and Mr. Huston said it takes a smart man to read one upside down.
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