Traveller (2014)
“Do you happen to know what the mumps might be? Well, neither do I, ‘ceptin’ I guess it must be some kind of a sickness. I ain’t aiming to go sick, and I don’t reckon it’s likely, not if I didn’t go sick with being three years and more in the Army. I’m s’prised Marse Robert would even let the idea come into his head.
No, Tom, he cert’nly did let it come into his head. It was this way. S’afternoon we started out on our ride as usual, and we was jest heading out of town along one of the quiet back... streets, when we come up with two little girls was riding up and down on an old horse—jest passing the time, you know. I’ve seed them round afore now—and the horse, too. They belong to one of them fellas that helps Marse Robert with his commanding the country and speechifying and all the rest of it. Marse Robert pulls me up and offs with his hat to these little girls, and then he said if they liked to come long with us, he’d show ‘em a real fine ride.
‘Course, they was both as pleased as two foals loose in a meadow.MoreLess
No, Tom, he cert’nly did let it come into his head. It was this way. S’afternoon we started out on our ride as usual, and we was jest heading out of town along one of the quiet back... streets, when we come up with two little girls was riding up and down on an old horse—jest passing the time, you know. I’ve seed them round afore now—and the horse, too. They belong to one of them fellas that helps Marse Robert with his commanding the country and speechifying and all the rest of it. Marse Robert pulls me up and offs with his hat to these little girls, and then he said if they liked to come long with us, he’d show ‘em a real fine ride.
‘Course, they was both as pleased as two foals loose in a meadow.MoreLess
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