[The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Badge of Courage CHAPTER I 17/34
If yeh keep that in yer mind allus, I guess yeh'll come out about right. "Yeh must allus remember yer father, too, child, an' remember he never drunk a drop of licker in his life, and seldom swore a cross oath. "I don't know what else to tell yeh, Henry, excepting that yeh must never do no shirking, child, on my account.
If so be a time comes when yeh have to be kilt or do a mean thing, why, Henry, don't think of anything 'cept what's right, because there's many a woman has to bear up 'ginst sech things these times, and the Lord 'll take keer of us all. "Don't forgit about the socks and the shirts, child; and I've put a cup of blackberry jam with yer bundle, because I know yeh like it above all things.
Good-by, Henry.
Watch out, and be a good boy." He had, of course, been impatient under the ordeal of this speech.
It had not been quite what he expected, and he had borne it with an air of irritation.
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