Excerpt: ...just made up a-purpose fer the song?" "It's my country," he whispers, slow and husky, and begun gazin' acrosst to the mesquite again. "And, Cupid, it's a beautiful country!" "I reckon," I says. "It's likely got Oklahomaw skinned t' death." Up-State, he didn't answer that-too polite. Aw, he was a gent, too, same as the parson. Minute 'r so, Macie struck up again- "And dearer by far than all charms on earth byside, Is that bright, rollin' river to me." 159 Up-State lent over, elbows on his knees, face in his hands ...
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Excerpt: ...just made up a-purpose fer the song?" "It's my country," he whispers, slow and husky, and begun gazin' acrosst to the mesquite again. "And, Cupid, it's a beautiful country!" "I reckon," I says. "It's likely got Oklahomaw skinned t' death." Up-State, he didn't answer that-too polite. Aw, he was a gent, too, same as the parson. Minute 'r so, Macie struck up again- "And dearer by far than all charms on earth byside, Is that bright, rollin' river to me." 159 Up-State lent over, elbows on his knees, face in his hands, and begun tremblin'-Why, y' know, even a hoss 'll git homesick. Now, I brung a flea-bitten mare from down on the lower Cimarron oncet, and blamed if that little son-of-a-gun didn't hoof it all the way back, straighter 'n a string! Yas, ma'am. And so, a-course, it's natu'al fer a man. Wal, I ketched on to how things was with Up-State, and I moseyed. I was at the deepot pretty frequent them days-waitin'. Macie hadn't talked to me none yet, and mebbe she wouldn't. But I was on hand in case the notion 'd strike her. Her hangin' out agin me and her paw tickled them eatin'-house Mamies turrible. They thought her idear of earnin' her own money, and then goin' East to be a' op'ra singer, was just grand. But the rest of the town felt diff'rent. And behind my back all the women folks and the boys that knowed me was sayin' it was a darned shame. They figgered that a gal gone loco on the stage proposition wouldn't make no kind of a wife fer a cow-punch. "Would she camp down in Oklahomaw," they says, "and cook three meals a day, 160 and wash out blue shirts, when she's set on gittin' up afore a passel of highflyers and yelpin' 'Marguerite'?...
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