? ? ? ? "Nor church?"
? ? ? ? "Nor church."
? ? ? ? "But you always went to church."
? ? ? ? Well, I was gone up again. I forgot I was the old man's servant. But next minute I whirled in on a kind of an explanation how a valley was different from a common servant, and had to go to church whether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on account of it's being the law. But I didn't do it pretty good, and when I got done I see she warn't satisfied. She says:
? ? ? ? "Honest injun, now, hain't you been telling me a lot of lies?"
? ? ? ? "Honest injun," says I.
? ? ? ? "None of it at all?"
? ? ? ? "None of it at all. Not a lie in it," says I.
? ? ? ? "Lay your hand on this book and say it."
? ? ? ? I see it warn't nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it.
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