"
"I'd ruther to git whipped fifty hunderd times 'n to hafter
go to bed in the daytime with Aunt Minerva lookin' at you.
An' her specs can see right th'oo you plumb to the bone.
Naw, I can't come over there 'cause she made me promise not
to. I ain't never go back on my word yit."
"I hope mama won't never ask me to promise her nothing a
tall, 'cause I'm mighty curious 'bout forgetting. I 'spec'
I'm the most forgettingest little boy they is. But I'm so
glad I'm so good. I ain't never going to be bad no more; so
you might just as well quit begging me to come over and
swing, you need n't ask me no more,--'tain't no use a tall."
"I ain't a-begging you," cried Billy contemptuously, "you
can set on yo' mammy's grass where you is, an' be good from
now tell Jedgement Day an' 'twon't make no change in my
business."
"I ain't going to be 'ticed into no meanness, 'cause I'm so
good," continued the reformed one, after a short silence
during which he had seen Sarah Jane turn her back to him, "but
I don't b'lieve it'll be no harm jus' to come over and set in
the swing with you; maybe I can 'fluence you to be good like
me and keep you from 'ticing little boys into mischief.
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