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...newsmen poured into Mr. Sam's office to look at the bones, everything was tidy and all was sweet harmony. "We agreed," said Rayburn, "that none of the three of us is trying to be divisive. There was no loud talk, no violent disagreement, no fightin' and scratchin'." Rayburn added that he takes no stock in demands for Butler's resignation, and that he and Johnson assured Butler that they are true to the Democratic Party's legislative ideals, "and let the chips and vetoes fall where they may." And as Paul Butler and smiling...
...They're all doin' it for the money. I'm gonna be eighty-three years old next Friday and I got connections with the government, and they're all in it for the money. That one with the glasses, see 'im, scratchin' himself, he's makin' a lot of money. Notice the way he talks so slow...
Earl himself was not so much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures they drew on the ground...
...clock or I'll kill you. I don't care nothin' much about the six cents.' And he started shakin' and I went away. But come 11 o'clock and back I went and there was Coonhunter pawin' and a-scratchin' in the potater patch where he said he'd throwed the keys and I looked at him and I said. 'Coonhunter, guess I'll have to kill you. Life's uncertain but death's sure. I've come out here to do something I never...
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