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"Miss Watson she kept pecking at me, and it got tiresome and lonesome" (6).
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"Jim would happen in and say, "Hm! What you know 'bout witches?" (10)
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"The Widow put in a good word for me, but that warn't goint to keep off the bad luck" (23).
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"I stooped down to look at the tracks first. I didn't notice anything at first, but next I did. There was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails, to keep of the devil" (23)
"So the hair-ball talked to Him, and Jim told it to me" (25) -
"I hears a deep sond of 'boom!'" (51)
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"I'll keep a lookout, and if any of them's floating around after me I'll give them a show" (52)
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"Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain" (62).
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"You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck!" (73)
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"Then he said he must start in and " 'terpret' it" (116).
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"I alwayz 'spected dat rattlesnake-skin warn't done wid its work" (142).