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Title: Opie Read in the Ozarks, including many of the rich, rare, quaint, eccentric, ignorant and superstitious sayings of the natives of Missouri and Arkansaw
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939
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Publisher: Chicago, R. B. McKnight & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s merely a take-oft. Yes, said the visitor, your intentions were allright, but what you say aint the truth. The old ladyusually tuk a chaw of tobacker about the size of awalnut and I dont reckon there was a better jedgeof licker in our neighborhood. She was sorter proudof her record in regard to licker, and if it wont betoo much trouble to you I wish you would make a sortof correction. A three shell fakir had just begun operations onthe outskirts of an Arkansas village when an oldfellow wearing a green vest and a long jeans coatcame along, and who, after looking for a while at themanipulation of the shells, said: Youve got some sort of trick, I reckon. Oh, not very much of a trick. Sort of a gamethats as fair for one as it is for the other. Yas, and I reckon a good deal fairer for the onethan the other. No, replied the fakir, continuing to work the dPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. 79 shells, 1 dont think so. I have lost considerablemoney at it in my time. Why dont you do something else, then?
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*I bleve ril go you once jest for luck. Its under thatone right thar. ^Truth is I have been at this business so long thatI dont know how to make a living any other way.^Raised to it, I reckon.Yes, my father done the same thing.And he lost a good deal of money, too, I reckon. 8o OPIE READ IN THE OZARKS. Got broke up and had to quit the business. And I reckon you low to foller in his footsteps. Not if I can help it; still, Fve got to take mychances. I reckon you air right about that. Say, how dothe thing work? Til show you: You see I put this pea down hereand cover it with a shell. Thats easy enough done, said the old fellow,wiping his tobacco-stained mouth on the tail of hiscoat. Oh, yes, putting it in there is easy enough, butthe thing is to guess which shell it is under. Wall, but I dont have to guess when I seed whichone you put it under. Well, you are entitled to your opinion, but Til betyou five dollars you cant guess which shell the peais under. I bleve Ill go you once jest for l

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