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Hain’t neither, I tell ye !
It was not until the well had been sounded and prodded for half an hour,?first by the men, then by the women, and finally by an adventurous youth who climbed down into it with widely spread legs,? that one Maria Liz appeared at the top of the lane, and, wildly waving her arms, announced in a grating,na- sal voice,
I found ‘er in un'er the baid!
and then there was an excited scramble among the women to see who should reach the house first. It then came out that?
Ye see, DrusiF she ’s set ag'in’ egs- travagant livin’, bein’ drefful clus and savin’ ? an’ her folks allus wuz before her. Why, I ‘member her paa 'way back in '62. And here followed a history of the author of Drusil’s being, with which I will not delay the narrative in hand.
Well, an’ that ‘s heaow shecame by her clus ways; and now Fairf’? Fairf’ ‘s drefful open- handed, Fairf’ is. Ye see, Fairf he ‘s had a good charnce to see- coor as fine a yoke of cattle as I ever see, an’ I ‘ve seen? Here was interpolated a description of a certain yoke of cattle that the speaker had seen at the Lewiston Fair. Well, Fairf'hegoes to Drusil’, and he up and tells her of the steers, a-p'intin’ toward the advarntages into ‘em, and 'lows that t’ would be a good thing for him to take the lawbster money, as was sot by, and go and git ‘em short-hand. Well, b’ jolly, Drusil’ she bucked ag'in’ it, and sot up such a waxy opposin’ of it, that Fairf’ he gin up and took out of the house, and baited two tub of trawl gear before he dast go nigh her ag'in. But them steer they kind of ha'nted Fairfs mind, and he could n’t git shet of thinkin’ of their silky hides and long outda- cious horns of ‘em ; and then he see the profit that they was into 'em, with the luggin’ of the winter wood, an’ the haul i…