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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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