[Roughing It Part 4. by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookRoughing It Part 4. CHAPTER XXXI 8/18
In a little while he fell to grumbling to himself, and soon he slouched back to the bar and said: "Lan'lord, what's your idea for rakin' up old personalities and blowin' about your father? Ain't this company agreeable to you? Ain't it? If this company ain't agreeable to you, p'r'aps we'd better leave.
Is that your idea? Is that what you're coming at ?" "Why bless your soul, Arkansas, I warn't thinking of such a thing.
My father and my mother--" "Lan'lord, don't crowd a man! Don't do it.
If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance.
What's the matter with you this mornin', anyway? I never see a man carry on so." "Arkansas, I reely didn't mean no harm, and I won't go on with it if it's onpleasant to you.
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