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? ? ? ? "Roun' de which?"

? ? ? ? "What's de harem?"

? ? ? ? "The place where he keep his wives. Don't you know about the harem? Solomon had one; he had about a million wives."

? ? ? ? "Why, yes, dat's so; I- I'd done forgot it. A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'on. Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery. En I reck'n de wives quarrels considable; en dat 'crease de racket. Yit dey say Sollermun de wises' man dat ever live'. I doan' take no stock in dat. Bekase why would a wise man want to live in de mids'er sich a blimblammin' all de time? No- 'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet down de biler-factry when he want to res'."

? ? ? ? "Well, but he was the wisest man, anyway; because the widow she told me so, her own self."

? ? ? ? "I doan k'yer what de widder say, he warn't no wise man, nuther. He had some er de dad-fetchedes' ways I ever see. Does you know 'bout dat chile dat he 'uz gwyne to chop in two?"

? ? ? ? "Yes, the widow told me all about it.


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