knees.

And he snapped, “Hain’t ye grit enough, man,

to say scat?

Ye’ll never git anywhere, drivin’ like that.

I’ll tell ye right now that the oxen I own

Hain’t driven like kittens; they don’t go alone,

There’s pepper-sass in ’em—they’re r’arin’ an’

hot, .

An’ I—I’m the r’arin’est ox in the lot.”

Then Uncle’Lish Henderson lowered his head