He chucked them in the fire as soon as he made out who they come from.
Mary [Aside.] My poor mother.
Asa You see, as nigh as we could reckon it up, she had gone and
got married again his will, and that made him mad, and well,
he was a queer kind of a rusty fusty old coon, and it appeared that
he got older, and rustier, and fustier and coonier every fall,
you see it always took him in the fall, it was too much for him.
He got took down with the ague, he was so bad the doctors gave him up,
and mother she went for a minister, and while she was gone the old man
called me in his room, `come in, Asa, boy,' says he, and his voice
rang loud and clear as a bell, `come in,' says he. Well I comed in;
`sit down,' says he; well I sot down. You see I was always a favorite
with the old man. `Asa, my boy,' says he, takin' a great piece of paper,
`when I die, this sheet of paper makes you heir to all my property
in England'. Well, you can calculate I pricked up my ears
about that time, bime-by the minister came, and I left the room,
and I do believe he had a three day's fight with the devil,
for that old man's soul, but he got the upper hand of satan at last,
and when the minister had gone the old man called me into his room again.
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