' So, Margaret, you
must never interfere with bisiness."
"But didn't you say suthin' about that you might have to kill him?
Didn't you?"
"Huh. We must have been talkin' about a sheep that broke his leg. When a
sheep breaks his leg, you know, he's about gone. Mighty hard thing to
cure a sheep, makes no diffunce what's the matter with him. Feller over
near Smithfield had a sheep once that--"
"Didn't he say he was a goin' to be app'inted deputy marshal?"
"Who, the sheep? Now, I don't believe a sheep would make a very good
deputy marshal. Strikes me that the wolf would be a trifle better."
"Jasper, I didn't say a word about a sheep, and you know it."
"That's a fact. I was the one that was a talkin' about a sheep. I know'd
it was one of us, but I sorter forgot which one."
"Didn't he say that you made a good deal o' licker when the sun wan't
shinin'? Didn't he?"
"Margaret, ef you keep on, I'll be fo'ced to believe you have been
listenin'; an' I'd hate to think that. Thar ain't nuthin' much wus than
listenin' to other folks when they talk business.
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