And then and then well I won t be certain, but it seems like as if you
made Sid go and and
Well? Well? What did I make him do, Tom? What did I make him do?
You made him you Oh, you made him shut it.
Well, for the land s sake! I never heard the beat of that in all my
days! Don t tell _me_ there ain t anything in dreams, any more. Sereny
Harper shall know of this before I m an hour older. I d like to see her
get around _this_ with her rubbage bout superstition. Go on, Tom!
Oh, it s all getting just as bright as day, now. Next you said I warn t
_bad_, only mischeevous and harum-scarum, and not any more responsible
than than I think it was a colt, or something.
And so it was! Well, goodness gracious! Go on, Tom!
And then you began to cry.
So I did. So I did. Not the first time, neither. And then
Then Mrs. Harper she began to cry, and said Joe was just the same, and
she wished she hadn t whipped him for taking cream when she d throwed it
out her own self
Tom! The sperrit was upon you! You was a prophesying that s what you
was doing! Land alive, go on, Tom!
Then Sid he said he said
I don t think I said anything, said Sid.
Yes you did, Sid, said Mary.
Shut your heads and let Tom go on! What did he say, Tom?
He said I _think_ he said he hoped I was better off where I was gone
to, but if I d been better sometimes
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