A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain
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"I'll have that doctor hanged." "Marse Tom, she don't WANT him hanged. She--" "Well, then, I'll have him boiled in oil." "But she don't WANT him boiled. I--" "Oh, very well, very well, I only want to please her; I'll have him skinned." "Why, SHE don't want him skinned; it would break her heart. Now--" "Woman, this is perfectly unreasonable. What in the nation DOES she want?" "Marse Tom, if you would only be a little patient, and not fly off the handle at the least little thing. Why, she only wants you to speak to him." "Speak to him! Well, upon my word! All this unseemly rage and row about such a--a-- Dorcas, I never saw you carry on like this before. You have alarmed the sentry; he thinks I am being assassinated; he thinks there's a mutiny, a revolt, an insurrection; he--" "Marse Tom, you are just putting on; you know it perfectly well; I don't know what makes you act like that--but you always did, even when you was little, and you can't get over it, I reckon. Are you |
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