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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 26 Under Fire
12/19

They didn't hunt for each other, but when they happened to meet, they puffed and begun.

Men would shoot boys, boys would shoot men.

A man shot a boy twelve years old--happened on him in the woods, and didn't give him no chance.

If he HAD 'a' given him a chance, the boy'd 'a' shot him.

Both families belonged to the same church (everybody around here is religious); through all this fifty or sixty years' fuss, both tribes was there every Sunday, to worship.


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