An' yer hear me,
I's gwine see dat somebody got ter scarify yer hides."
"If that ain't just like you, Billy," said Jimmy, "you all time
got to perpose to make nigger heads yeller and you all time
getting little boys in trouble. You 'bout the smart Alexist
jack-rabbit they is."
"You perposed this here hair business yo'self, Jimmy,"
retorted his fellow-conspirator. "You's always blamin' yo'
meanness on somebody else ever sence you's born."
"Hit don't matter who perposed hit," said Sarah Jane firmly;
"meanness has been did, an' y' all gotter be structified on
de place pervided by natur fer ter lem my chile erlone."
CHAPTER X
LO! THE POOR INDIANS
Billy had just decided to run down to the livery stable to
pay Sam Lamb a visit when the gate opened, and Lina and
Frances, their beloved dolls in their arms, came skipping
in.
Jimmy, who had had a difference with Billy and was in the
sulks on his own side of the fence, immediately crawled over
and joined the others in the swing.
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