Uncle Pete he got up from his front corner seat and turned round toward
th' people and hollered, 'I'll give another hunderd dollars t' th' Lord,
and yuh all know I kin pay it!' he says.

"Turn over."

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"That's Uncle Jerry Sparks, ma's brother. He was a lieutenant of
artil'ry. Pa says ef he was a rebel and seen Uncle Jerry comin' weth that
'spression onto his mug he wouldn't only hit th' high places."

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"That's Evans Billhorn, a cousin of ma's by his first wife. He ust t'
keep a butcher shop down t' Peory and he was so strong he could throw down
a steer. Onct pa made a mistake talkin' t' Evans. Evans was a-braggin'
'bout how he could rassle, and pa ups and says, 'Huh! you couldn't throw
nothin' but a fit,' he says. Say! it never took less 'n two doctors t' fix
all th' things about pa that was broke."

"Still, Evans is most awful clumsy, too. One time when he was t' our house
he knocked off a real cluny vase of ma's and broke it and his wife says,
'Evans Billhorn, th' next time I take you anywheres I'll crate yuh!' she
says. Pa kep' a piece of that vase fer a long time. 'Pore feller
suff'rer,' he called it.

"Turn over."

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