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UNCLE DANIEL
Jes the same M-Mars Sellers, [c-c-can't] git rid o' dat no how.
SELLERS
Hic. Why don't you try the eye-water. That'll cure anything, take it internally, externally, or—hic—eternally.
UNCLE DANIEL
[N-N-No] use Mars Sellers, no use. I done tried lots o' truck. N-No use, sah.
SELLERS
Daniel, you've got no faith. Stammering is easily cured. I know a man once that was cured a perfect—hic—cure. He told me all about it, it happened this way. I was sitting all alone by myself, in the tavern at Hawkeye, when a man came in and looked at me from head to foot, and then he walked away . Presently, he sidled up to me and, putting his hand on my shoulder, he says, "I th- th- th-
(whew)
think I've seen you before." Says I, "Perhaps you have, but what makes you whistle so?" Says he, "I'll tell you. You see, I used to st- st-
(whew)
st- st-
(whew)
stammer so, that no one could make out anything I had to say! And I was co- co-
(whew)
courting a girl and she said she didn't want to marry a man with such a hor- such a hor-
(whew)
ible and infirmity. So I went to a doctor and he told me every time I wanted to st- st-
(whew)
stammer, I must wh- wh-
(whew)
whistle, so I did and it cu- cu-
(whew)
it
(whew)
cured me.
(Exit UNCLE DANIEL, laughing and
whistling. Enter LAFAYETTE.)
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