Capitolo 54
"Did it strike her?" he asked Episcopalian.
The grower took a more hop and then turned and faced the railroad
magnate. There was on a clot his/her greater eye of the egg of a hen, and on
it I could see the marks of bramble of the ball. It witnessed a moment his
anger allowed expression. He spit out a bit of tobacco as not to
is handicapped.
"You struck me; You dod-gasted the old poppinjay of a fat beau!" him
it exclaimed, while shaking a muscular fist, freckled to Harding. "You struck me;
You the old flabby chromolithography! You suppose that I fall out of my wagon and my dance
on and down this road for exercise; You old lobster boiled?"
"I am very sorry, gentleman", said Harding, fun and increasing anger
fighting for dominion. "I was not shooting in this direction. Anything
happened to my ball; what does he/she call it Smith?"
[The illustration: You "it struck?"]
"You cut him", I said me.
"That is it; I cut him", declared Harding as if that were more or less
of a valid excuse.
"You come above to that enclosure a' I will cut Him!" Episcopalian roar, taking a
you advance in before. "Things have entered to an excellent passage this country if a
honest grower cannot bring his/her milk to city without riskin' the bein' he murdered
from plutocrats with 'he/she cut balls and that whole tommyrot of the empty blankety-space.
You climb on on this side of the enclosure a' I will lick seven son-in-laws of
stuffin' out of You in erbout one minute."
"Hold Your shirt on!" Harding ritorguto, "you won't lick anybody."
He looked curiously to the exasperated grower.
"Is Your name Episcopalian, it is not?" he asked, and I wondered me as him
happened to know.
"Yes, my Episcopalian name", it was the surly one and provocative answer.
"Jim Bishop?"
"Yes; Jim Bishop."
Harding sneered good-naturedly.
"Doesn't he/she know me I am who?" he asked.
"No, I don't do, and I don't give a curse!" answered Episcopalian, looking at him
more from nearby, I thought.
"Did he/she know that a young called individual Harding when You a boy both?" asked