[The American Claimant by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Claimant CHAPTER VIII 5/8
Was I right? What should you say, Washington Hawkins? You've seen me try that button twice.
Was I right ?--that's the idea.
Did I know what I was talking about, or didn't I ?" "Well, you know how I feel about you, Colonel Sellers, and always have felt.
It seems to me that you always know everything about everything. If that man had known you as I know you he would have taken your judgment at the start, and dropped his dry battery where it was." "Did you ring, Marse Sellers ?" "No, Marse Sellers didn't." "Den it was you, Marse Washington.
I's heah, suh." "No, it wasn't Marse Washington, either." "De good lan'! who did ring her, den ?" "Lord Rossmore rang it!" The old negro flung up his hands and exclaimed: "Blame my skin if I hain't gone en forgit dat name agin! Come heah, Jinny--run heah, honey." Jinny arrived. "You take dish-yer order de lord gwine to give you I's gwine down suller and study dat name tell I git it." "I take de order! Who's yo' nigger las' year? De bell rung for you." "Dat don't make no diffunce.
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