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"Bennie Dick's got 'bout the kinkiest head they is."
Bennie Dick was the two-year-old baby of Mrs. Garner's cook,
Sarah Jane.
"It sho' is," replied Billy. Wouldn't he look funny if he
had yaller hair, 'cause his face is so black?"
"I know where the bottle is," cried Jimmy, snatching eagerly
at the suggestion. "Let's go get it and put some on Bennie
Dick's head and see if it'll turn it yeller."
"Aunt Minerva don' want me to go over to yo' house," objected
Billy.
"You all time talking 'bout Miss Minerva won't let you go
nowheres; she sure is imperdunt to you. You 'bout the
'fraidest boy they is . . . . Come on, Billy," pleaded Jimmy.
The little boy hesitated.
"I don't want to git Aunt Minerva's dander der up any more
'n I jest natchelly boun' to," he said, following Jimmy
reluctantly to the fence; "but I'll jes' take a look at that
bottle an' see ef it looks anything 't all like 'No-To-Kink'."
Giggling mightily, they jumped the dividing fence and slipped
with stealthy tread around the house to Sarah Jane's cabin in
the back-yard.
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