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"They ain't much 'tale' about it! " Noey said. -- / "K'tawby grapes wuz gittin' good-n-red / I rickollect; and Tubb Kingry and me / 'Ud kindo' browse round town, daytime, to see / What neighbers 'peared to have the most to spare / 'At wuz git-at-able and no dog there / When we come round to git 'em, say 'bout ten / O'clock at night when mostly old folks then / Wuz snorin' at each other like they yit / Helt some old grudge 'at never slep' a bit.
Well, at the _Pars'nige_ -- ef ye'll call to mind, -- / They's 'bout the biggest grape-arber you'll find / 'Most anywheres. -- And mostly there, we knowed / They wuz _k'tawbies_ thick as ever growed -- / And more'n they'd _p'serve_. -- Besides I've heerd / Ma say k'tawby-grape-p'serves jes 'peared / A waste o' sugar, anyhow! -- And so / My conscience stayed outside and lem me go / With Tubb, one night, the back-way, clean up through / That long black arber to the end next to / The house, where the k'tawbies, don't you know, / Wuz thickest. And t'uz lucky we went _slow_, -- / Fer jest as we wuz cropin' tords the gray- / End, like, of the old arber -- heerd Tubb say / In a skeered whisper, 'Hold up! They's some one / Jes slippin' in here! -- and _looks like a gun_ / He's carryin'! ' I _golly! _ we both spread / Out flat aginst the ground!