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Lahoma by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
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"I'll always remember--and I won't go without you. He COULD go with
me, couldn't he, Bill?"

"I suspicion he has his reasons for not," Atkins observed gravely.

"I has, and I shall never go back to the States."

"Then what's the use civilizing me?" demanded Lahoma mournfully.

"I want you to enjoy yourself. And when I'm old and no-'count,
you'd need somebody to take care of you--and you'd go full-equipped
and ready to stand up to any civilized person that tried to run a
bluff on you."

"But, oh, I want to GO--I want to go out THERE--where there ain't
no plains and alkali and buffalo-grass--where they's pavements and
policemen and people in beautiful clothes. I don't mean NOW, I mean
when I have got civilized." She drew herself up proudly. "I
wouldn't go till I was civilized, till I was like them." She turned
impulsively to Brick: "But you've got to go with me when I go! I'm
going to stay with you till I'm fit to go, and then you're going to
stay with me the rest of my life."

"Am I fit to go with her?" Brick appealed to Bill Atkins.

"You ain't," Bill replied.

"I ain't fit," Brick declared firmly. "I'm a-going to fitten you;
but it's too late to work on me; and besides, if they WAS time
enough, it ain't to the grain of my nature. I knows all I wants to
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